How To Talk To Children About Covid-19 (or Other Natural Disasters)

My eight-year-old daughter came home from school this week asking if she was going to catch Coronavirus.

Her school Principal had spoken to her class about Coronavirus and the new procedures they were putting in place for children to wash their hands before lunch and break time.

Although I was following the news carefully trying to make sense of the Coronavirus outbreak myself, I had not discussed it with my daughter. It had no direct relevance to her life at that point and I did not want to alarm her unnecessarily.

However, now that it was moving closer to home I knew it was time to talk about it.

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