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My triplets had coronavirus anxiety — so I taught them how to do science

They have an idea for a new experiment now, says Jeremy Grabbe.
  1. Jeremy Grabbe

    1. Jeremy Grabbe is an associate professor of cognitive psychology at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh.

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My seven-year-old triplets — two girls and a boy — were having trouble doing classwork at home. The coronavirus pandemic meant that they did not have access to a classroom, with desks to sit down at. It is hard to study at the dining-room table with your siblings (their school, sensibly, tries to put them in separate classrooms so that they don’t distract each other) as dad gives the baby a bottle and e-mails his students. This was something we all had to get used to.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01868-7

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