Articles and Advice for Talking to Kids about COVID-19
3 Steps to Help Kids Handle Anxiety About Coronavirus
by Alissa Marquess at Bounceback Parenting | 03/11/2020 | The steps below are designed to help your child find a sense of personal power in their situation. Also check out Alissa's follow-up post on how to apply these steps to yourself.
1. Check in with how they’re feeling. Keep it simple. Just ask and then stop talking to give them a chance to respond.
2. Listen and acknowledge. Listening without trying to fix helps expand your child’s feeling of self trust and validity.
3. Follow up with questions that invite a feeling of capability and resourcefulness.
2. Listen and acknowledge. Listening without trying to fix helps expand your child’s feeling of self trust and validity.
3. Follow up with questions that invite a feeling of capability and resourcefulness.
Stories: Help children relate to emotions and actions and express what they are feeling
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by Gail Henry-Daniels
Illustrated by Jeffrey Scott Perdziak |
by Elizabeth Jenner, Kate Wileon & Nia Roberts | Illustrated by Axel Scheffler
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by Nanci Monaco & Mark Schachter
Illustrated by Chiarra Corradetti |
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A story of hope and triumph during challenging times. This book highlights that even in difficult times, if we look hard enough, we can find the good. It also shows how kindness and goodwill towards others can make all the difference in bringing about brighter days.
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In this free e-book download, authors and illustrator from The Gruffalo worked with consultant Professor Graham Medley, two head teachers and a psychologist to portray an honest message about coronavirus, answer questions about quarantine, explain how the virus is contracted, and what happens if you get ill.
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This is a story of resilience and personal reflection, told from the perspective of Joy, a child who is trying to cope and adjust to all the ways life has changed as a result of the pandemic. The authors, child psychologists in Western New York, offer a guide and a website to help parent's and teachers explore fear, coping, and resilience with children. Monaco is an education professor at Buffalo State.
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Photo via Heather Anne World
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Homeschooling is NOT the Same as Crisis Schooling: Advice During Coronavirus COVID -19 Shut Downsby Heather Anne at Heather Anne World | March 23, 2020
Long time public school teacher and homeschool mom of 25 years offers encouragement and words of reality for those who were thrown into schooling kids at home due to the coronavirus COVID-19 shut downs.
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Photo via Fast Company
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3 Smart Ways to Help Kids Learn Online During the COVID-19 Pandemicby Rebecca Dore at Fast Company | March 20, 2020
As families everywhere adjust to social distancing measures such as closed schools, childcare centers, workplaces, and more, parents are grappling with questions regarding their kids’ use of technology. Rebecca Dore, an expert on children and media, offers some tips for how to make the most of screen time for kids who are cooped up at home.
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Photo via New York Times
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Deciding How Much Distance You Should KeepThis article from the New York Times breaks down 3 similar terms - social distancing, shelter-in-place, self-monitoring and self-quarantine - and explains when and how to do each.
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Photo via TIME
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The Secret to Keeping Your Kids Happy, Busy and Learning if Their School Closes Due to Coronavirusby Susie Allison at TIME | March 15, 2020
The widespread school closures have sent a ripple effect into parent communities as many scramble to find ways to smoothly transition kids into at-home life. The following article talks about the secret to being successful in the learning environment at home: make a routine.
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Photo via Probably Tomfoolery
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The Great RealisationMusic by Katie Phillips | Sound Design by Sam Gee
Probably Tomfoolery is a YouTube channel that creates "simple poems for complicated times." In his latest video, he tells a poetic bedtime story of how coronavirus started, and why hindsight's 2020.
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