As kids' activities reopen, parents share insights about keeping families active during COVID-19 shutdowns

The forced slow down the pandemic offered may have long-lasting effects on children and families' activities. (Shutterstock)

Organized play and sporting opportunities for children have finally started to resume after having just passed the two-year mark of the pandemic.

As parents know too well, the pandemic led to extended closures of settings that previously supported children’s play and sport, like parks, community centres and sport facilities.