Many Canadian children are beginning to re-enter the world after 10 weeks closer to home than ever before, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whether they’re returning to school and the playground or reuniting with extended family and friends, the transition can bring up a lot of emotions.
We reached out to three experts to find out how parents can ease this transition. “Anytime a child is anxious, you’re going to start seeing a change from their baseline behaviour and that can be different in different kids,” says parenting author Alyson Schafer. “Some kids will want to stay clingy and be with their security person.
Other kids kind of just internalize things and then they can just actually get so flooded with their anxiety that that freeze,