For parents
Coronavirus and Parenting: what you need to know now, NPR article/radio clip answering questions about COVID-19 and child safety and schooling.
How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus: PBS for parents article providing guidelines for parenting during the COVID-19 outbreak. Also available in Spanish.
How to talk to children about the coronavirus, Harvard Health article with guidelines to talk about the coronavirus with your child and keep them safe.
What parents can tell children about coronavirus, article by My Southern Health (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) mapping out how and what to talk about with your children during COVID-19.
Five Tips to Help Children Manage Coronavirus Anxiety, article by Little Flower Yoga, an organization promoting yoga and mindfulness for children and teens.
For children
Based on the above-mentioned NPR article, Malaka Gharib created a comic explaining the coronavirus to children. Also available in Chinese.
Home Sweet Home, le Podcast, Elisa, and eight-year-old, bilingual girl staying home in Paris, is actively collecting stories from children around the world to share what they’re doing while they stay home. You can record yourself or your child and send Elisa your take on staying at home! Each episode is under five minutes.
You may have already seen this on social media, but just in case you haven’t, here is the footage of the science experiment Miami Pre-K teacher Amanda Lorenzo used to explain to her class why hand-washing is so important.