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Hi, I'm Anya Kamenetz, an NPR reporter and the mother of two girls.

And I'm Corey Turner, an education reporter and the mother of two girls. And I'm Corey 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 Anya 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.

Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

RWJF is a national philanthropy working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.

Learn more at RWJF.org. 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.

Takeaway number one, and we're going to start super basic here, is we've said this two weeks ago, we're going to say it again.

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