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Neighborhood-based friendships making a comeback for kids in the age of coronavirus

  • Written by Julie Wargo Aikins, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, Wayne State University
Neighborhood-based friendships making a comeback for kids in the age of coronavirusA new social world for children may be right outside their front door.Martin Novak/Movement via Getty Images

As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards....

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