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Checking in on Children's Mental Health During the Pandemic

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At the height of the pandemic, when I’d moved to working from home and my 8-year-old to homeschooling, I started to panic. Ned is an only child and an extrovert, and was finding the isolation from other children very challenging.

I spoke to child psychologist Dr. Roberto Parada, who reassured me that, “children are very resilient. We should start off with: my child will be able to deal with this.

Not with the opposite: this will break them.” Up to this point, I’d worried that the pandemic, so soon after the summer bushfires, would break Ned.

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