March 1, 2023 is Early Childhood Health and Well-Being Advocacy Day in Wisconsin
We all play a role in advocating for families and children. Keep in mind that the past three years have put parents into uncharted waters that even the most seasoned parent could not be prepared for. Hats off to all pandemic families who had to make Herculean effort to give their kids the basics of health, education and a sense of security.
My heart aches for…
… all the world’s families who had to endure such strange times of isolation, societal chaos, economic stresses, shifting safety recommendations and slow pace of vaccine role-outs for our youngest humans.
The popular press can be misleading…
In recent US News and World Report article, the title Pandemic Lockdown May Have Slowed Babies’ Communication might lead a parent of a young child to believe that this is a real problem. Let’s take a look at what the experts in the article conclude:
- Dr. Susan Byrne, a senior lecturer in pediatrics and child health at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, whose research was featured in the article comparing pre-pandemic babies’ development to a cohort born during the pandemic. She concludes that the language development differences were small, that babies’ brains are resilient, and actually walking skills were stronger for pandemic babies.
- Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, associate professor of pediatrics and human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says it is hard to tease out whether the pandemic had a good, bad or mixed effect on early development. So…
For young children, not all bad; but for school-aged kids…
See parents with kids less well-behaved than you wish, try this…
We see you. Doing it ALL. Every. Single. Day. Standing ovation! Raising little ones isn’t easy. Keep it up. (from the Bright by Text team)
