Key take away from the article below.

"The stress, fear and uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic can wear anyone down, but teens may have an especially tough time coping emotionally. Feeling depressed, hopeless, anxious, or angry during the COVID-19 pandemic may be signs they need more support during this difficult time."

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/COVID-19/Pages/Signs-your-Teen-May-Need-More-Support.aspx

Good Morning #COSO
Today will be the last of my postings on the topic of children and schools. I first want to say thank you to all for the engagements I have received and I hope that the information has been substantive, informative and perhaps eye opening.

This last post is personally hard for me, and hit a nerve, but it needs attention. The article I am linking below is important. Let me know if you read it for any reason and I will post it word for word

https://www.abqjournal.com/1472694/shadow-deaths-of-the-virus.html

One paragraph that sums up the last 3 posts is this.

"The steep decline could be a sign that an unseen epidemic of abuse is spreading behind locked doors, according to the police, prosecutors and child protection officials. As the virus has shuttered the city, the fragile system of safeguards designed to protect children has fallen apart"

My take:

This is perhaps the darkest consequence of the shutdowns.. however, there is one last one to be talked about but I'll do that later.

Child abuse reporting across the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/04/30/child-abuse-reports-coronavirus/

Cases of child abuse are also showing more severity

Out of Pennsylvania

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/13/hospitals-seeing-more-severe-child-abuse-injuries-during-coronavirus/3116395001/

If I was tell you that Reports of child abuse have dropped between 40 and 50 percent, would you think"thats great. Abuse is going down"

Out of New York City..

Teachers are normally the leading reporters of suspected abuse, calling for help when they notice bruises or signs of hunger or mistreatment at home. Now, teachers get a glimpse of their students only in a virtual classroom, if they see them at all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-child-abuse.html

Good Morning #COSO I'm wanted to say thank you to all who have been reading, engaging and debating the very important issues regarding kids and schools. I have all the posts pinned on my profile so everyone can find them easier. Today I'm post about the very real consequences of the shutdowns. I am going to apologize in advance regarding the topic for today, however, I am not placing content warnings on any of it. Just an FYI. The first posts will drop in about an hour. grab your coffee.

Last post on this
article is from a few months back, but with schools, some not reopening, it is still very relevant

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdnjx/22-million-kids-rely-on-school-for-meals-heres-what-theyre-doing-during-closures

Key takeaway

"About half of all U.S. public schoolchildren rely on free or reduced-price meals. Now, as school officials try to maintain emergency meal programs in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, they must choose between potentially allowing children to go hungry or risking exposing them to infection"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/04/03/coronavirus-free-school-lunch-grab-and-go-delivery/5114622002/

1 in 4 children in the United States could face hunger this year because of the coronavirus.

https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/1-4-kids-could-face-hunger-year

Good Morning #COSO

I do hope all of you found the posts and links from yesterday informative, but today, I'm going to touch on some issues that have only been receiving a little bit of press over the last few months.

It needs to be talked about. There are a couple things that tie directly into the school shutdowns. These are real world consequences.

Around 22 million kids depend on school meals

more on this

https://www.eater.com/2020/3/9/21170472/coronavirus-school-closures-free-reduced-priced-lunch-student-meals

last one for the morning

Key take away

"Nobody is immune to the stress that comes with a pandemic and related quarantining. Children, however, may be at particular risk. Living in a universe that is already out of their control, they can become especially shaken when the verities they count on to give the world order–the rituals in their lives, the very day-to-dayness of living–get blown to bits".

https://time.com/5870478/children-mental-health-coronavirus/

This post can aid parents during the shutdowns

https://www.all4kids.org/news/blog/social-connection-on-child-development/

The next couple posts directly relate to The Child.. like I said, it is food for thought.

https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Sociology/Book%3A_Sociology_(Boundless)/04%3A_The_Role_of_Socialization/4.08%3A_Childhood_Socialization/4.8A%3A_Child_Socialization

Good morning #COSO
I'm gonna offer up some food for thought so today is gonna be "pointdexter" day. (ie nerd)

The topic, child socialization.

Here is the first article. yes. it may bore you, but I promise there is a method to my madness

https://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html

This post ties into the single parent household. This will give food for thought if you read both posts. This also ties into the would if I could part of the poll, as well as not an option.

Now there will be some temptation to bring up women making less then men, or equality between the sexes. PLEASE, lets refrain from that for a moment and focus on the children in these households and current school shutdowns. plenty of time to debate later.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/women-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-roughly-5-times-as-often-as-men.html

Good Morning #COSO

These next two articles directly relate to having or not having an option of remote learning for kids. I chose the article because the numbers are most up to date pre-covid. That's important. Working parents, whether its both parents working, or a household with just a single parent has a direct effect on options.

Here is the first post

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/12/u-s-children-more-likely-than-children-in-other-countries-to-live-with-just-one-parent/

This is the last article for the morning #coso and I really hope you guys are finding valuable information in what I'm posting.

This article sums up what I've talked about and more so

"Educators have heroically and historically transitioned tens of millions of kids from brick-and-mortar education to a digital one, and at least 43 states, four US territories and the District of Columbia won't resume in-person school this academic year"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/health/opt-out-online-learning-coronavirus-quarantine-wellness/index.html