How to talk to your kids about coronavirus
I pick my conferences not by who will be on the podium but by who will be sitting next to me. A few years ago I went to a conference in Portland, OR on trauma-informed approaches to community response to climate change. The conference pretty much sucked because of way too much "sage on the stage" content and nowhere near enough "who's in the room?" opportunity.
Lucky for me I did ask Cheri Lovre to connect, and we are still hanging out regularly via Zoom. Cheri runs a company called the Crisis Management Institute. She's the one you call when there's been a mass shooting at your school. Her website states expertise in addressing crisis response, peaceable schools and violence prevention. So last week when it was obvious that coronavirus is a crisis, she and her team went into overdrive. They created a website dedicated to how to talk to your kids about COVID-19.
Here's the curriculum for the first 6 weeks:
Week 1: Attitude Affects Outcome.
Week 2: Managing Anxiety
Week 3: Coping With an Uncertain Future.
Week 4: Empowerment
Week 5: Filling Time When Kids are Home
Week 6: Distinguishing Fact from Hype
And it goes on from there because unknown is the new normal. Nice work, Cheri. I knew there was a good reason to go that conference.
Website: Talking to Your Kids About COVID-19