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Handling Your Kid’s Disappointment When Everything is Canceled

We are all in this together. This article is a great read teaching how to help your kids handle the disappointment of things that may have been cancelled. By now, we all have experienced some form of disappointment from activities, vacations, and not being able to be with friends. This article does a good job explaining that we can’t always come in and take away our kid’s disappointment. As hard as that may be, it allows children to be able to handle disappointment later on in life when you aren’t around to swoop in and save the day making everything better. Just listening to your child’s feelings is the best thing you can do.

Read more on tips to help: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/parenting/coronavirus-kids-events-cancelled.html