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Flashback: How to entertain your young children during a quarantine

So many stories center around 2020; having lived in Beijing since the summer of 2019, ours was particularly memorable.

I spoke to Cindy Marie Jenkins, a parent who was quarantined with her young children in China, who wrote out the day's schedule on a whiteboard every morning.....Jenkins also noted that, for her children, it was important to keep in touch with their school friends. You might also want to explore remote options for vulnerable family members.

So many stories center around 2020; having lived in Beijing since the summer of 2019, ours was particularly memorable. When I spoke to this writer, we'd been set up in what we called the Orlando "evacuation apartment," and thought that we had tickets back to Beijing in early April.

So even though she mentions our quarantine in China, at that point we were back in Orlando. I was finding my way into being a rational voice for the escalating work from home movement, and I'm 90% sure this call for sources was from the Facebook writing group that (now) I admin.

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