Hi, I'm Ania Kamenets, an NPR reporter and the mother of two girls.

And I'm Cory Turner, an education reporter and the dad of two boys.

And today we're going to talk with you about really the only thing that Ania and I have

been talking about for the last two weeks, coronavirus.

Obviously, right?

That's what everyone has been talking about.

So this is going to be a special life kit parenting episode about how to talk with young

kids about coronavirus, how to deal with school closures, maybe your school is closed, or

maybe it isn't, and you're worried about why it isn't.

We're also going to talk about some screen time strategies if your kids are home and most

importantly, how to keep our kids healthy.

And because we're education reporters, we are in the privileged position of talking to

experts about this.

And so we thought that we would come to you, our life kit listeners, and pull together

everything that is potentially useful.

So here we go.

A quick note before we get started, this is a very fluid situation.

So this episode was recorded on Thursday, March 12th.

And it is perfectly possible that things might have changed, our understanding of this

disease might have evolved by the time you hear this.

Take away number one, we're going to start super basic here is, we've said this two

weeks ago, we're going to say it again, your kids need to understand not only that it

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