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By Emily Esfahani Smith, Originally published in the New York Times, May 4,2021 When schools shut down last spring, Carson Roubison, a charter school student in Phoenix, was initially relieved. There were some difficulties in those early days at home — when...

Temper tantrums, “talking back” and other forms of acting out are a normal part of a child’s development. When a youngster is feeling, tired, stressed, upset or out of sorts for any reason, these behaviors aren’t uncommon. Ask any parent! But when a child’s words and...

The past year has brought with it more stress than many of us have ever experienced. Given the fear, anxiety, isolation and overall disruption of our normal lives caused by the pandemic, it would be surprising not to feel more stressed out than usual....

The guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial was, in no small part, the result of a video taken by a teenaged girl who witnessed the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Fifty years earlier, on May 4, 1970, another teenaged girl found herself on the other...

Last month, our country reached a devastating milestone: More than a half million Americans have died from COVID-19.  Losing a loved one can be devastating under any circumstances, but it’s especially difficult now, when we’ve also lost many of the traditions...