Children

With a wholesale return to in-person schooling planned for the fall across the country, including in Miami-Dade County, parents are now asking themselves how safe will the return be? Fortunately, the question can now be answered in large part by parents and children themselves.

With summer on the horizon, many children are eager to ditch the masks, let loose and camp, play and chill like its 2022. But vaccinated or not, parents must ensure that their children play it safe whether online or at the pool. By taking sensible precautions, they can have the most refreshing, productive and healthiest summer recreation possible and recharge their spirit in those eternal sunshine (and tropical storm) months of June, July and August.

Book of the Month: My Day with the Panye

Written by Tami Charles

Reading with your children can be an early life bond that will last for your entire lives. When the subject of that reading is the actual bond that develops between parents and their children through everyday and extraordinary experiences, then the impact can be even stronger. My Day with Panye (big basket) is a story about a young girl's dream to carry a big basket on her head to the market, just like her mother. It turns out to be harder than expected, but the experiences of her day shared with her mother fill her with love and growth.

Along with My Day with Panye, this month’s selection of books from the Miami-Dade Public Library System celebrate children sharing experiences, characteristics and, most importantly, love with their parents.

Getting and keeping your kids on track academically has always been a challenge. Throw in a worldwide pandemic and a wholesale move to virtual learning for more than a year and the desperation for our kids to go back to school to reconnect with traditional learning is strong.

In April of last year, when the country’s collective panic over the pandemic started to hit its high, countless headlines pointed out the troubling and perplexing disappearance of toilet paper from practically all retail shelves. But not much was said about diapers, even though there was a similar run on the critical commodity for parents and their young children.

Miami-Dade County’s Coronavirus page on where and how to sign up to get COVID-19 Vaccine:

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has a special web page with Coronavirus information,

Florida Department of Health’s Coronavirus page.

The Miami-Dade School Board also has a Coronavirus page, as well as a Parent Guide to the Novel Coronavirus.

To learn more visit www.TheChildrensTrust.org or call 211.