Girlfriends, episode number 214, six tips for parenting your children through COVID-19.

Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance,

and joy in family living. This week, we are talking about parenting kids of all ages

through COVID-19. That's what everyone that's affecting all of us, all the way down to our very personal

home lives, the structure, and the routines that go on in our own homes and families. So that's

what I wanted us to talk about here today. Usually I record the podcast a week ahead of time,

and I had a different episode that was all set to go for this week, but I'm going to jump in here and record this one today on Tuesday, March 17th, the day that it releases, because I want to share with you and offer you support in real time for what's really going on currently.

And in your current state, in your home, in your family, the different kinds of changes that all of us are

facing as a result of this scare with the COVID-19 virus. So let's talk about that. Let's talk

about some of the ways in which your structure is probably changing. I know for me personally,

you know, everyone's work has changed. Well, not everybody's, but a lot of people's work has changed. So for me,

the office that I occasionally go into that's located in Massachusetts is closed and everyone is

working from home. So I generally work from home. So that's not a big adjustment for me,

but the ways in which I'm communicating with people are shifting and changing there,

but that's very manageable. My husband, Dan, as some of you know, has a small business. He owns an

escape room business here in New Hampshire, and he's decided for at least the next two weeks he's

going to be closed just to do our part in the community to be not engaging with other people, not encouraging

gatherings of groups of people. So that's a difficult decision to make for sure for a small

business. And we're also very aware that it's the right thing to do and that many other businesses

are facing similar circumstances and perhaps even more dire circumstances

and that there's a lot of people who are going to suffer economically as a result of these changes

in work and maybe that's you maybe you're facing financial anxieties as well as a lot of these

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