Kids and Coronavirus. Non medical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Show them how to wash hands properly and watch them do it

[Anonymous]

Mine haven’t asked about it and I haven’t brought it up. Thought the invoice for their sleepaway camp in the northeast just came and I’m sitting on it for now. I’m not a paranoid person but kids from many states attend and well as a few international kids and counselors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine haven’t asked about it and I haven’t brought it up. Thought the invoice for their sleepaway camp in the northeast just came and I’m sitting on it for now. I’m not a paranoid person but kids from many states attend and well as a few international kids and counselors

Call the camp and ask them what they are planning on doing to deal with this if it is still a problem at that time.

[Anonymous]

I'm trying my best to shield my kids from this. They're 2 and 5 and they don't need to worry about it. That's my job.

[Anonymous]

My 9 yo thinks it's going to be great to be quarantined for 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 9 yo thinks it's going to be great to be quarantined for 2 weeks.

I was surprised that my 7 year old didn't suggest a trip to China or Italy in order to be quarantined once the school said that anyone coming from an infected location should self quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 9 yo thinks it's going to be great to be quarantined for 2 weeks.

I was surprised that my 7 year old didn't suggest a trip to China or Italy in order to be quarantined once the school said that anyone coming from an infected location should self quarantine.

Ha ha
My teen offered to have himself and his little brother stay home so they wouldn't be part of transmitting it in our area. So thoughtful! lol

[Anonymous]

I asked my kids a couple days ago if they had heard of coronavirus. They said no. I gave a quick description and moved on because they were really not interested. Ages are 7 and 4.5. I was surprised. It never occurred to me that they'd never heard of it. We are kind of an anxious family, so it seemed like a good sign that they didn't care too much.