COVID pandemic and childhood development: COVID pods & social bubbles
This story is being provided for free as part of a series on childcare during the COVID pandemic, powered by the Solutions Journalism Network and dedicated to delivering solution-oriented stories about problems our community is facing. Younger children have historically taken major developmental cues from their older peers. Perhaps something we took for granted pre-COVID was the natural interaction of children of different ages inside schools and during extracurricular activities. Insert the pandemic, and those interactions ceased. Feared now are potential social stunts, as younger chil...