How to Talk to Your Kids About COVID-19

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In part 4 of the Famous at Home series during social isolation, we talk about how to talk to your kids about coronavirus. Kids, too, have had their schedules and routines interrupted. But, unlike many adults, kids don't always know how to communicate fear, sadness, or confusion. Making it more difficult is that a child's feelings will often come out through behavior--either behavior we don't pick up on, or behavior we don't like. So not only do we punish the behavior, we punish the negative emotion too.

In this episode, we provide practical ways we can talk to our kids about coronavirus without making these mistakes. We also talk about what our kids need most during this time, how we can settle their hearts, and how we can make the most of the time we get together as families.

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0:00.0	But what I really want you to do is I want you to think about how you can step into the positive
0:03.6	emotion.
0:04.4	I want you to think about how you can give them hope, how you can give your kids purpose during
0:10.3	this time.
0:11.9	Kids need direction.
0:14.9	You are listening to the Famous At Home Podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:20.6	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:26.6	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:30.6	We are in our series here talking about what to do in this whole situation that we find ourselves in
0:36.6	as it relates to coronavirus COVID-19.
0:39.7	And a lot of the questions that we're getting surround how we talk to our kids about COVID-19.
0:45.4	How do we help our kids navigate the fact that all of a sudden one day school was interrupted,
0:51.8	dropped their home. And for the foreseeable future, for a lot of
0:58.2	them, who knows if they're going back or when they're going back. And there were no, you know,
1:04.2	end of your school parties, kind of the closure that you put on school for the kids wasn't even there for them and just kind of
1:12.6	ended abruptly and the same held true for us as parents and so we're dealing with all of
1:17.1	those emotions we've heard from parents that you know your birthday parties that were
1:21.6	interrupted you know kids birthday parties who I mean you're social distancing you have
1:26.8	no ability to be able to have a birthday party so your kids are having birthday parties who I mean you're social distancing you have no ability to be able to
1:28.6	have a birthday party so your kids are having birthday parties at home with just the family isolated
1:33.4	at home you know spring break plans canceled the whole nine yards and and so there's a lot of
1:40.4	emotion going around for kids as well as us as adults. But we have to realize
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