Vanessa LoBue, the lab director at The Child Study Center at Rutgers University, says prevention may be important, but the way to get children to stick with new habits is to explain why they need to do them.Global News’ Laurel Gregory spoke with LoBue about how parents can do that.I would love to know your advice to parents about describing this virus to their children?We started this research before COVID-19.
We look at how to teach kids healthy behaviours for keeping themselves healthy and what we found is often when parents talk to their kids about illness transmission they usually just say risk prevention behaviours like wash your hands before you eat, stuff like that, or wash your hands after you blow your nose, cough into your.