Tips for nurturing and protecting children at home:
Keep routines in place.
Be creative about new routines
Manage your own anxiety.
Limit consumption of news.
Stay in touch virtually
Make plans
Keep kids in the loop but make it simple
Check in with the little kids
Sometimes the path of least resistance is the right path
Accept and ask for help
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Talking to Children About COVID-19 NASP Resource
The new virus has caused children and families to feel anxious. Thus, it is very important to remember that children look to adults for guidance on how to react to stressful events. This resource provides guidelines on how to talk to children about COVID-19.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): How to Talk to Your Child
By now, it is very likely that your kids are hearing about COVID-19 and your job is to make sure they get reliable information from you. This resource gives guidance on how to talk to them.
Helping Children Cope with Changes Resulting From COVID-19:
The following article talks about ways you can help your child cope with evolving changes in daily life caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hello! I am a VIRUS, counsins with the Flu and Common Cold
If you're like most parents you are probably wondering how to bring up the epidemic in a way that will be reassuring and not make kids more worried than they already may be. This resource provides just that!
Teaching Kids Coping Skills Worksheet: These printable's are designed to help you teach kids how to cope with difficult and overwhelming feelings, like anxiety, anger and stress.
Anxiety Relief Tools for Kids: These tools can be used in 60 seconds or less to help decrease levels of stress and anxiety. Used repeatedly, these coping skills become habit.
Coping Skills for Kids: This resource provides calming strategies that can be used at home.
Use Coping Strategy Activity to outline Healthy Vs. Unhealthy Coping Strategies: This is the perfect tool to help teach your child the importance of healthy coping strategies!
Mylemarks' Free Downloads Page!
This page offers dozens of FREE worksheets and resources created exclusively for kids and teens!
Free Social Emotional Learning Activities:
This resources offers free lessons, activities, and printables related to communication, cooperation, emotion regulation, empathy, impulse control, and social initiation.
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
This page provides various family resources designed to support your students social, emotional, and behavioral functioning while at home.
Social Emotional Printable Worksheets
With these social-emotional worksheets, you can help your student explores mindfulness, build self-awareness, and learns to self-soothe.
This activity helps children learn how their thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected.
Sometimes anger can affect what you say or do before you even recognize how you’re feeling. This activity helps student identify their own anger warning signs.
Emotions are not black and white and this wheel of emotions visually portrays just that!
iThis is an autobiographical poem about yourself and your life. Finish the sentence stems in ways that describe you and your feelings.
Gratitude Jars are a fun, artistic, and hands-on way for children to practice gratitude. In this activity, each child will create a special jar where they save gratitude statements at the end of the day.