Commentary: Don’t expect your kids to return to school seamlessly

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Understanding how the circuit breaker affects our children may help us ease them back into school-life, says Annie Tan.

If that wasn’t complicated enough for students and their families, the month preceding the school reopening has been the most un-holiday-like school-break ever, with a nation of children stuck at home and literally bouncing off the walls.

READ: Commentary: Don't stress over your kids' education this circuit breaker. There are other ways they are learning In primary and secondary schools across the nation, only graduating cohorts in Primary 6 and Secondary 4 and 5 will attend school on weekdays. Other cohorts will rotate weekly between classroom-based and home-based learning.

As a mother of a toddler, I find myself struggling to explain to my daughter why it is now bad to stand close to people she likes or spend time chatting with them when we cross paths. For some, it can feel like the world as they knew it and their entire social support system has been threatened or razed to ground overnight.

 

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