Are we raising little germaphobes?
The pandemic has heightened the fear of germs in children but that might be OK.
ByConnie Chang
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Meg St-Esprit’s seven-year-old son had always been wary of germs. If a classmate “licked the end of a marker and put it back in the bin,” she says, he’d avoid the markers for the rest of the day.
But the constant barrage of COVID-19 news this past year amplified those fears to a fever pitch. “He’s a ball of anxiety,” says St-Esprit, a mother of four in Pennsylvania. “He got to the point where, within our house, he was like, ‘I don’t want a sibling to touch me because they might give me corona.’”
Written by Rachel Berliner
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. EST.
Co-hosted with the Stamford JCC (Stamford, CT). This webinar is free and open to the public.
Speakers:
Jane Faherty, Director of Jumpstart, Stamford JCC and Educational Advocate (Stamford, CT)
Special Guest: Dr. Rebecca Etkin, Ph.D., Anxiety Disorders Program at Yale Child Study Center (New Haven, CT)
Topics for discussion
• The slippery slope of anxiety and avoidance: what to watch out for
• Strategies for helping your child feel less anxious and more confident in the virtual classroom and beyond
• Parent-child power struggles: how to strategize for maximum benefit
• How to manage the transition back into school and “normal life”
Helping Parents and Children Navigate Anxiety During COVID and Beyond Date: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Register here on Zoom: http://bit.ly/BA6422 Co-hosted with the Stamford JCC (Stamford, CT). This webinar is free and open to the public. Speakers: Attorney Lawrence Berliner, Special Education Law Jane Faherty, Director of Jumpstart, Stamford JCC and […]