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Posted on May 14, 2020 by confidentparentsconfidentkids

On the TODAY Parenting Blog… “The Unexpected Benefits of Educating Our Children During COVID-19”

“Reread and reflect on the childhood stories that shaped you and see what they say about your life today,” was one of the instructions from an online class on clinical psychiatry my husband was been taking during the #COVID-19 Quarantine. This was an easy assignment since he had begun reading “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien …

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