Kids and Coronavirus. Non medical.

[Anonymous]

My 7 year old is totally freaked out and thinks she will die. She’s overheard news stories on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8yo just said today that kids are immune to coronavirus.

We are Asian American. My 10yo had a cold last week and I coached him to say that he was born in America and never been to China. This was last week, before it spread to Europe.

We have been talking about it since we cancelled our spring break plans to Japan.

Smart cookie, the knowledge is strong in this one! He JUST made the death-free group too...

AGE DEATH RATE


80+ years old
confirmed cases 21.9% - all cases 14.8%


All cases:

70-79 years old
8.0%

60-69 years old
3.6%

50-59 years old
1.3%

40-49 years old
0.4%

30-39 years old
0.2%

20-29 years old
0.2%

10-19 years old
0.2%

0-9 years old no fatalities

YET

[Anonymous]

My 11 is concerned and I had to look on NewsELA (through school account) to read about it, because he was mad that the Wall Streeet Journal requires a subscription. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 11 is concerned and I had to look on NewsELA (through school account) to read about it, because he was mad that the Wall Streeet Journal requires a subscription. LOL

Sorry, I had HIM look on newsela! I don't have an account.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a lady with a facemask at the grocery store's checkout line in front of us. My 6 years old said look!! That lady has the coronavirus. ?

lol my 7 year old said something similar yesterday, too!

[Anonymous]

My ESOL 4th graders were all talking about it today.

[Anonymous]

...because we couldn't let a single forum NOT have a coronavirus thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 7 year old is totally freaked out and thinks she will die. She’s overheard news stories on it.

Two approaches..

Art..
Tell her that itt is called corona virus because it does not hurt princesses.

Or Science
Or if she is geeky /good with data as some kids are at this age, show her her the pert of the table that shows that kids do not die of it.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

[Anonymous]

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/28/809580453/just-for-kids-a-comic-exploring-the-new-coronavirus

I thought this was helpful ^

[Anonymous]

9YO knows, gets that mom and dad bought some extra food, and appears completely unconcerned. Mostly this has been a history and vocabulary lesson (etymology of quarantine, history of the plague, ya know, fun stuff LOL). If we wind up quarantined I told her I’ll explain genetics.
5YO is oblivious, not surprisingly. He gets the hand washing but we push that all the time anyway.
DH and I are mostly worried about killing each other if we are quarantined. My kids are like Jack russels, they need to be exercised!!

[Anonymous]

DS is 7. The only time he has mentioned the Corona Virus was when he came home from school and said that the school's plan was for anyone who has traveled to places with the virus should not come to school. That was all.

He has not mentioned. we don't talk about it because there is nothing to be said or done. we increased our food stores, tossed in some more frozen veggies, froze some meat, and bought some more pasta. We are fine on the day to day stuff in the house. So there is nothing for us to do, why talk about it?

[Anonymous]

The kids heard about it from school so we talked about it. Once they heard kids were fine then they didn't care.

[Anonymous]

How to talk to a preschooler about it? And would you? Or wait until the sh@&$ hits the fan locally?

My preschooler still fights hand washing (gross, I know). Her friends are like “oh, there is a new toy. I’m gonna lick it first!!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How to talk to a preschooler about it? And would you? Or wait until the sh@&$ hits the fan locally?

My preschooler still fights hand washing (gross, I know). Her friends are like “oh, there is a new toy. I’m gonna lick it first!!”

No, don’t talk about it. For what purpose?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How to talk to a preschooler about it? And would you? Or wait until the sh@&$ hits the fan locally?

My preschooler still fights hand washing (gross, I know). Her friends are like “oh, there is a new toy. I’m gonna lick it first!!”

So your preschooler is a normal preschooler. You make them wash their hands and you assume that the other preschoolers are among the billions of people on the planet that are not infected.