Keeping our children safe and calm in troubled times

Keeping children safe and keeping children free from worry are usually tasks that parents do without any sense of cross‐purpose. In times of threat and very real danger, these two parental goals come into conflict. This article articulates the confusion of intentions amidst the pandemic. It alludes to previous crises such as happened in both World Wars to protect children including Operation Pied Piper to evacuate them from London in World War...