Transitioning kids back to preschool post-pandemic

WKBW-TV featured Christine Wang in a story about how parents can prepare preschoolers post-pandemic. She says kids are often more comfortable with change than we might think, but some things that happened this past year may have been a little confusing for them. For example, it became more difficult for kids to pick up on facial cues because the adults around them were wearing masks. To help compensate for that, she says the teachers at her preschool used words to explain to the kids what was happening. Wang explained, "The teacher would tell them "I'm smiling but you couldn't see me!" So they used language to guide the kids to read and understand the facial cues covered by the mask."