INTERVIEW
From Monday, schools will be able to reopen in France. This return to school will not be without changes since the schools and nurseries will adopt strict health rules and enforce physical distance. New codes that may seem complicated to explain to children. How can they be reassured in the face of this return to school in these new conditions? Answers with doctor Fabienne Kochert, pediatrician and president of the Association of professional training in pediatrics, invited Sunday on Europe 1.
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According to the pediatrician, you must first avoid communicating your stress to your children. "Parents and adults who are not reassuring will stress children," she said. "Children are able to understand many things and they feel the emotions of adults."
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Fabienne Kochert concedes, however, that adults have reasons to feel anxiety. "This return to school was probably precipitated and perhaps not explained well enough to the supervisors, which is a source of stress for all the adults who accompany the children," she analyzes.
Put children in confidence
Rather than showing the children her emotions, she advises rather to adopt another discourse in front of them. "If we explain things to them calmly and confidently and if they feel the confidence of adults, the children will understand," explains Fabienne Kochert.
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This approach notably involves pedagogy. "You have to tell them the truth, that the virus is still circulating and that we can consider going back to school with precautions that are relatively simple for them to apply," she said, citing in particular washing. hands or the ban on sharing school materials.