SARAH LINDENFELD HALL, GO ASK MOM EDITOR
As we stay home to steer clear of the coronavirus, kids are at risk for other at-home dangers…..For the Full Article from WRAL click here.
The first edition of the Injury Prevention North Carolina newsletter focuses on national and local trends in injury mechanisms resulting from Covid-19 and the stay at home order. Topics include, home safety, suicide prevention, risky drinking, and child abuse. To read the issue click here.
Parents are juggling more than ever right now. Amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, nearly every facet of everyday life has changed. Schools and day cares are closed, so kids are home. Parents are either working from home and trying to home-school or still having to go to work in these frightening times. For the full article click here.
Dale Edwards, News of Orange
As restrictions put in place by N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper are extended for weeks, parents struggle to keep their children entertained or on task with distance learning, all the while many of them are working from home. The complications of parents being stretched thin and in several different directions could create dangerous situations for the children at home as they are not able to be watched as carefully as they should be.
“Parents just can’t be in all places at all times,” said Anna Stormzand, the injury prevention coordinator for the UNC Trauma Program and coordinator of Safe Kids Orange & Chatham counties……..For the full article click here
As restrictions put in place by N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper are extended for weeks, parents struggle to keep their children entertained or on task with distance learning, all the while many of them are working from home. The complications of parents being stretched thin and in several different directions could create dangerous situations for the children at home as they are not able to be watched as carefully as they should be.
“Parents just can’t be in all places at all times,” said Anna Stormzand, the injury prevention coordinator for the UNC Trauma Program and coordinator of Safe Kids Orange & Chatham counties……..For the full article click here
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