How parents can avoid turning shelter-at-home into Camp Chaos

March 26, George Holden, Professor of Psychology and Chair of the SMU Department of Psychology, for a piece advocating the best parenting strategies during the long days of shelter-in-place. His co-author is wife Anne Cameron. Published in the Dallas Morning News: https://bit.ly/2y5KaOZ

With the order to shelter-in-place, parents find themselves in uncharted child-rearing territory. There are no research studies, no manuals, no time-proven useful nuggets of advice. Instead, parents must rely on their own ingenuity, creativity and sensibility to forge the way forward.

Families are now into the second week of confinement, trying to work at home while managing children and worrying. The following are some tools to help navigate this strange new world we find ourselves in. . .

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