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Par­ents, raise your hand if you are ready for school to start! Now, raise your hand if you despise pack­ing school lunch­es! For some rea­son, it is one item on my ​“to-do” list that I absolute­ly loathe. Our local schools pro­vide great lunch­es, but there are still days that I need to pack a lunch or two. – (and now three this year, as my baby is start­ing first grade sob.) But I digress.

Whether we’re ready or not, it’s time to dig out the lunch box­es, and get pre­pared for anoth­er year! Let’s face it, thanks to Pin­ter­est we have moved way beyond the tra­di­tion­al, some may say ​“bor­ing,” sand­wich and chips meal. This helps keep lunch fun for kids, but mak­ing sure their lunch is both healthy and some­thing they’ll eat can be a challenge.

Toe Walk­ing is just when a child walks pri­mar­i­ly on their toes with­out putting weight on their heels or oth­er parts of the foot.

While school-age kids are adjust­ing to learn­ing remote­ly dur­ing this time when schools are closed due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, fam­i­lies with infants and tod­dlers can also take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to incor­po­rate devel­op­men­tal activities.

Class­rooms across the region are oper­at­ing remote­ly, as schools have closed for the aca­d­e­m­ic year. For some fam­i­lies, this change extends beyond the class­room and impacts how their chil­dren receive sup­port ser­vices, such as speech ther­a­py, through their schools. With May being Bet­ter Hear­ing and Speech Month, Tana Mag­gart, speech ther­a­pist at Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG), offers some tips for par­ents and care­givers to sup­port their young children.

Dur­ing this time unique time as the world con­tin­ues to nav­i­gate the COVID-19 sit­u­a­tion, Quin­cy Med­ical Group’s Dr. Samuel Healy pro­vides sim­ple tips to keep kids healthy and encour­ages par­ents to keep their child’s health­care a priority.

Easy Kids Craft 

Easy Kids Craft 

Easy Kids Craft 

Easy Kids Craft

It’s safe to say 2020 has been one of the strangest years in our kids’ lives — their school year shift­ed abrupt­ly in March, their par­ents became their teach­ers, and then every­thing that requires pants was can­celed! They can’t see their friends, they have to wear masks when they leave the house, and now plans and dif­fi­cult deci­sions are being made about the new school year. Adults are strug­gling to cope with all these events, so you can be sure that kids are hav­ing a hard time too. But they don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly tell us that with words — they show us with their behav­iors. Whin­ing, cry­ing, clingy behav­ior, trou­ble falling asleep, reduced or increased appetite, out­bursts, and oth­er behav­ioral con­cerns are all pos­si­ble indi­ca­tors that kids are hav­ing a hard time with changes in their lives. Hope­ful­ly, for all of us, things will start to set­tle down and return to some­thing clos­er to nor­mal soon. But talk­ing with your kids about what is hap­pen­ing is the most impor­tant thing you can do to help them through the tough stuff. That sounds eas­i­er than it is, so here are some tips for get­ting started.