Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, an assistant professor of early childhood in York University’s Faculty of Education talks about how to transition back to daycare after COVID-19. “Daycare will look a little different than what we were used to, classrooms will be smaller, children won’t be able to mingle with children from other groups” says Vintimilla.
When parents have conversations with their children to help them comprehend what we are facing right now, it’s important to remember that “children exist in the world not in a bubble, so they know that something is happening and something is different than before. We need to be careful in how we create these conversations with children but at the same time we need to avoid putting children inside a bubble.”