First, acknowledge ways the coronavirus has changed their lives. When I spoke to her for last week’s newsletter about long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic on children, Rahil Briggs, Psy.D., mentioned the metaphor of the dandelion and the orchid. It’s a theory developed by Dr. Thomas Boyce, M.D., a pediatrician and researcher, and it posits that the vast majority of children are “dandelions” — pretty resilient and able to deal with stress as it comes.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/parenting/coronavirus-help-anxious-kid.html?searchResultPosition=1