Photo: Courtesy publisher. Illustration: Inc. Magazine Keeping your kids thriving through this pandemic has been hard for every parent. Keeping your kid and your business thriving? That's felt like mission impossible for plenty of entrepreneurs and other business leaders. Disrupted school and daycare schedules, limited kid entertainment options, severe economic pressures, and health worries have conspired together to make balancing work and parenting horrifically difficult. And as the months pile on, many families feel stretched to the breaking point. Unless you're handing out vaccines personally, there's not much you can do to speed the end of the pandemic. But according to a pair of books recently highlighted by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, there is plenty parents can do to keep themselves and their kids sane through this last, difficult homestretch.