Playdates are ruining all the fun
It’s time to rethink how American children play.
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Feb. 22, 2021 This piece was updated on Feb. 25 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern to reflect additional comments from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell on affordable child care. Apologizing for the echoes of a tantrum in the background. Trying to negotiate deadlines with bath time. Taking a work call while anxiously eyeing a baby monitor. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, this feels routine even as it has upended life for many parents. They’re the lucky ones: the parents who have been able to keep a job, work from home and find, however tenuous, some sort of patchwork solution to child ...
By ANNE BRANIGIN | The Washington Post | Published: February 22, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Apologizing for the echoes of a tantrum in the background. Trying to negotiate deadlines with bath time. Taking a work call while anxiously eyeing a baby monitor. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, this feels routine even as it has upended life for many parents. They're the lucky ones: the ...