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As millions of children are displaced from their schools due to the coronavirus, a sub-crisis has risen for American parents: What will the kids do all day? The widespread school closures have sent a ...

Co-authored by Priscilla Li, MD, and Eunice Y. Yuen, MD, PhD Screen time is used to describe activities that involve devices with screens, including cellphones, televisions, and computers. With the ...

Kids with slow processing speed may struggle to keep up with fast-paced activities. When they compare themselves to their peers in activities that require quick reaction times and fast thinking, they ...

In the current pandemic many parents of young children are finding themselves spending more time in the role of caregiver than usual. Keeping young children physically active and miminizing screen ...

From hockey and dance to chess club, families can be pulled in many extracurricular directions. It’s easy for parents to be overwhelmed by the choices of activities for their child — or also, how ...

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