COVID-19 Archives - Early Learning Nation

Happy, Healthy and Delish: Cooking with Kids in the Quarantined Home

Anna Hammond·Apr 10, 2020·19 min read

No, the quarantined home isn’t a foxhole, although parents and caretakers may sometimes feel it’s a battleground. We get it: with preschools and daycares closed for the foreseeable future, parents and caregivers are seeking engaging activities to keep the family sane and healthy. A great way to achieve both is by cooking together.

The Rainbow Connection Project: Building Community While Social Distancing

Linda Shockley·Mar 25, 2020·2 min read

Building community in a COVID-19 world is tough. But Brooklynites are nothing if not creative, industrious and hard-wired for...

Working with ECE Providers in Massachusetts during Covid-19: Insights from Amy O’Leary

Traci M. Childress·Mar 25, 2021·7 min read

The pandemic has upended entire industries, including the early childhood education (ECE) industry, which has suffered through permanent closures, high...

Ai-jen Poo, Founder of National Domestic Workers Alliance, Discusses Why Now is the Time for Transforming Our Undervalued and Largely Unseen Care Workforce

Bryce Covert·Feb 24, 2021·10 min read

Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few...

Three Lessons the U.S. Can Learn From International COVID-19 Child Care Responses

Elliot Haspel·May 14, 2020·4 min read

Anyone who has been following the intersection of COVID-19 and child care knows that the U.S. is not doing well....

7 #StayHome Brain-Building Activities from First Book

Mark Swartz·Mar 31, 2020·3 min read

The COVID-19 pandemic continues, and you’re at home with the little ones. We’re still here for you. Earlier we shared...

A parent’s guide to surviving COVID-19: 8 strategies to keep children healthy and happy

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff·Mar 18, 2020·2 min read

For many of us, COVID-19 has completely changed how we work. Remote work might have its advantages for some, but when the kids are out of school and libraries and museums are closed, juggling two roles at once can be a challenge. What is a parent to do? As two developmental psychologists dedicated to understanding how children learn and play, these questions are filling our inbox.