How to Talk to Your Child About the Coronavirus
This crisis can cause increased stress and anxiety for parents and their children. It can be difficult to cope with these disruptions to our daily lives. Here are some resources to help you support your child during this time.
How to Talk to Your Child About the Coronavirus
- Our Children’s Mental Health Matters! Campaign has put together a resource on how to talk to your child about the coronavirus. Download it here. In an effort to support children during this unprecedented time of crisis, the campaign is offering weekly resources and activities to help support children’s mental health. Go here to check in with the CMHM campaign for Mental Health Mondays!
- My Hero Is You – The World Health Organization’s Story Book to Help Children and Cope with Covid-19
- Tips on age-appropriate ways to explain the news to your kids from Common Sense Media
- Listen to This Podcast from The Daily — A Kids’ Guide to Coronavirus
- Advice on talking with your children about the coronavirus from the Center for Disease Control
- Five Ways to Help Teens Manage Anxiety About the Coronavirus
- Listen to This Podcast for Tips on Coronavirus and Parenting
Taking Care of Your Child’s Mental Health
- Our Children’s Mental Health Matters! campaign raises public awareness of the importance of children’s mental health and substance use, helps reduce the stigma of mental health, and connects families, educators and providers throughout Maryland with resources to help children. Go here to access the Children’s Mental Health Matters! campaign resources.
- Student and Young Adult Resource Guide for Coping during COVID-19 – Maryland Department of Health
- Apps to Support Your Child’s Mental Health
- 3 Minute Body Scan: Mindfulness for Kids and Families
- Five Ways to Help Teens Manage Anxiety About the Coronavirus