Parents and Guardians,

Please let me know via email/telephone if you have any questions, comments, feedback about your children during this time (see contact information). Being online/telephone only will be quite different from what my role has been this year. Let me know if you would like any resources in additional areas and I will post!

Thanks and keep in touch,

Abby Baxter

Consider talking with your student(s) about these developments as a family. Some suggestions include:

• Stick to the facts. It can be scary to hear about a disease outbreak, but learning the facts can help ease your mind.

• Remind your family that when we are prepared for difficult situations, we make informed decisions and have more control.

• It's important that we avoid assumptions or stereotypes about who you think may be sick. Viruses cannot target people from specific populations, ethnicities, or racial backgrounds. A person’s race does not make them more or less likely to be sick or to get sick.

Additional resources for talking with your family:

• Brainpop video aimed at kids that explains coronavirus

• Webcomic and 3-minute audio story aimed at kids on coronavirus

• How to Talk to Your Kids about coronavirus (PBS/Daniel Tiger - for young children)

• Article and podcast on "What to Say to Kids When the News is Scary"

• "Talking to Teens and Tweens About Coronavirus"

• The National Association of School Psychologists have an entire page of resources on this topic here.

• Supporting Kids/Child Mind Institute

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