Dr. Lisa Durette, Assistant Professor and Fellowship Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UNLV, said the isolation of distance learning has had a clear impact on the children she has seen in recent months, as well as adults

Since schools shut down in March, Clark County School District’s early-warning system, which monitors students’ mental health episodes, has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, according to a recent story in The New York Times. That has prompted CCSD to hasten the return of in-person learning for some elementary school grades.

Like many couples around the valley, Tony and Tabitha Scott found themselves unemployed last March when the lockdown began. But as the months went by, and distance learning dragged on in Clark County Schools, they say they saw an opportunity to make their dreams a reality and use their backgrounds in fitness to help youth, and Glitch Fitness was born.

As the campaign season ends and the holiday season nears, many households are bracing for a few lively political discussions during family gatherings, albeit smaller ones.

According to a growing number of experts, the seven months of lockdowns, quarantine, and distance learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a growing toll on the emotional well-being of many children.

When the first cases of COVID-19 started popping up around the United States, the number of infected children was low.

School is out for the foreseeable future. Which means the kids are home. But so are Mom and Dad, either working at home or laid off due to the coronavirus crisis.

The coronavirus outbreak can be a stressful time for several reasons, from anxiety about the disease to worries about isolation.