Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently appealed directly to children and thanked them for their efforts to combat the coronavirus. “Your playgrounds and schools have closed, and your March break was certainly different than what you had hoped for,” Trudeau said in a news conference, acknowledging the dramatic change many children have experienced. Then he offered them “a special thanks … for helping your parents work from home.”

To many working parents, that addendum may have sounded downright aspirational. Talk of kids helping their parents work from home isn’t what I’ve been hearing.

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