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  As we approach mid-summer, many parents are anxiously planning for their children’s return to school. Though going back to school presents a small step towards a sense of normalcy and routine, it also gives rise to many legitimate questions about how to protect your child from COVID-19 when they return to class.
  Many schools are enforcing policies around social distancing and the wearing of masks, following the guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends that everyone older than age 2 wear a face covering in public unless they have significant breathing problems. Whether you’ve been bringing your child along to the grocery store or for a walk around the park, it is likely they have had to wear a mask for some period of time. But what about wearing a mask for a full day at school? How can we normalize the wearing of masks and ensure their efficacy in schools?
  Donna Housman, Ed.D, founder and CEO of the Boston-based Housman Institute reminds us that children learn best through modeling and repetition. If you, as the caregiver, show your child that wearing a mask for a long period of time throughout the day is okay, your child will likely feel the same. Find our other suggestions for successful mask-enforcement below:
  Give them control: Allow your child to choose their mask out of a selection you provide. Giving them control in this situation will make them feel empowered in their choice and make them proud to sport an accessory they had a hand in choosing.
  Be honest about their purpose: When your child questions the purpose of wearing a mask, be honest about their purpose. Explain that masks keep them and others around them safe from germs that are spread through coughing, talking, even laughing.
  Calm their fears: If your child expresses anxiety or fear about the pandemic and the new precautions being enforced, discuss these feelings openly with them. Validate their feelings, let them know if you have been feeling similarly, and that these feelings are completely normal! Modeling openness around the discussion of emotions will normalize it for your child and will encourage and reassure them to remain open about these matters.
  Make it fun: Try to introduce some fun into the equation by allowing your child to decorate their own mask with skin-safe dyes or markers. If you are even more creatively inclined, follow a sewing pattern for children’s face masks online and have your child choose their own unique fabric and design. You can also make a game of who can wear their mask the longest and track progress on a sticker chart. Be creative and embrace some fun in these unusual times.
  
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  This week, we look at chamber music with some heart as we delve into nineteenth-century Romanticism and its aftermath.
  Thus far, we've seen the origin stories and the next generation of our chamber music superheroes. Now, we reach our proverbial Bronze Age as we explore chamber music in the nineteenth century. Known as the Romantic Era, the nineteenth century was all about emotion, which the music of the time strongly reflected.
  The Mozart has a certain rigid simplicity to it â€” can you hear it? The phrasing is regular, and the mood is fairly light and bouncy. And then you have the Brahms, which is lush and emotive, with long musical gestures and plenty of dynamic contrast (in musician speak, basically lots of fluctuations in volume).
  And if the piano became kind of a big deal in the eighteenth century, it was huge in the nineteenth century. If you ask even the most casual classical music listeners about piano repertoire, 9 times out of 10, they’ll mention this:
  Even if you don’t know Chopin's name, you probably recognize that piece! Or how about this one? If none of those, you have to know this tune! And if not Chopin, surely this guy is on… your... list?:
  Anyone who's seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit is definitely familiar with the end of this rhapsody. Between Chopin and Liszt, the piano player as nineteenth century "rock star" was born, and they even performed some of the very first piano recitals. Of course, other composers tickled the ivories as well, with Robert Schumann perfecting the art of miniature writing:
  The period is also characterized by a strong emphasis on music that was inspired by literature and art. Here’s a piece that you might recognize from orchestral literature, in its original form: