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As we know many of you are working from home now due to the serious COVID19 situation. Some of you may have children who also have to stay at home without going out. It’s a hard time for all of us.

We’ve experienced such tough time since the end of Jan, fortunately with the social distancing and lockdown/shutdown of cities, now we are mostly getting back to normal and with very few new cases in mainland China. So we’d like to share some of information which may helpful for your side.

By the way, we know there are many differences on the education, living style, mode of thinking, etc. between us. The below information are just for your reference, we’ll be very happy if they are helpful, if not, pls just ignore and thanks for your reading & understanding.

1. Keep ourselves quarantine can protect ourselves, meanwhile protect others as well. Most of the new cases are caused by the cross infection when you go out. Let’s try to stop it as much as possible. When the parents are following the rules and keeping calm, the children will feel safe and calm.

Share:
Dr. Wenhong Zhang who is the expert of COVID19 in China said:
Everyone is a soldier and they fight the coronavirus by staying at home.
You’re bored? Then you’re boring the virus to death!
https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2020/03/16/covid-19-meet-the-doctor-who-became-an-online-celebrity-for-his-straight-talk

2. Some of our colleagues have children and they shared their experiences as below for your reference:
1) Time schedule:
• Set an area especially for daily work.
• Set a schedule for daily work and life.
• Try to keep the same timetable as before.
• Stop the work after the working time and spend on the family members especially with children.
• Work for a while when necessary after children go to bed.

2) Kids <7 years old
If the children are before primary school, don’t tell them too much about the virus and risk. But you can try to tell them something with stories. Here is the link for your reference of the stories.
https://www.sparklestories.com/blog/post/stories-to-settle-fear-of-the-coronavirus/

There were a lot of stories we got during the outbreak in China, however sorry we don’t have time to translate and might not translate correctly.

3) Kids >7 years old
In China, nearly all the news on social medias are related to COVID19 currently, the children at 7+ will learn something from there and also from family members discussion.

For children older than 12+, we even can talk with them directly about the virus and what is going on in the world. This is also a life experience for them; they will learn something from it. Juliette’s children at 13 years old are studying online courses since early of March, the study is not stopped. And they enjoy reading books and listening to the audio books, do some sports as well.

Here are some links might help you to learn about how to talk to kids.

Since their children are studying in Rudolf Steiner schools, so we’ve searched some pages like below:
A. http://waldorfpittsburgh.org/covid-19-and-health-updates/
Pls go to the below two links:
https://time.com/5776857/how-to-talk-to-kids-coronavirus/

B. Also this one:
https://www.steinerschool.org/apps/pages/COVID-19
Pls click below links on the page:

Pls stay home and strong! We are together with you! Let us know if you need any help.

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