Share We Asked the Experts: What Will Be the Lasting Effect of the Pandemic on Our Children? With reports of learning losses, depression and anxiety, and lack of socialization, parents are worried their kids may suffer the consequences of the pandemic for years to come. The bad news is children have of course been affected. The good news is it doesn t mean it will be for the long run. Parents share their stories while experts weigh in. February 23, 2021
A year into the pandemic, the stress had gotten to be too much for Beth Phillips s 11-year-old son. He kept hearing about people the family knew who died from COVID-19. Not understanding the higher risks that come with pre-existing conditions, he thought that if anybody in his immediate family got COVID, they would die.
January 6, 1927 â January 8, 2021
On January 8th, following the celebration of her 94th birthday two days prior, Mary Glover Bastin passed peacefully into the Lordâs hands while surrounded by her family. The eldest child of Thomas Maxwell Shircliff and Martha Bayard Somes, Mary was born in Vincennes, Indiana, on January 6, 1927. She graduated from the Ladywood School in Indianapolis, attended the Sorbonne in Paris as one of the first students immediately after World War II, and graduated from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York. Mary had the rare ability to grace every room she entered; she seldom expressed an unkind word and made each person she met feel as if they were the only person in the room. Though schooled in the social graces of that era, she was a woman ahead of her time and strived to experience the world.