Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University developed a guide How to Support Children (and Yourself) During the COVID-19 Outbreak as a resource for families and children for this unpredicted time.
As we are all aware coronavirus pandemic has changed a lot in our everyday life, but the development of children, their needs as well as needs of families keep going forward, and they are still there.
In this three-page guide, you can find a list of resources grouped into three categories.
1. Practice Serve and Return interactions – with the aim to help children to build developing brains and resilience, something we all need in these challenging times.
- Video: 5 Steps for Brain-Building Serve and Return (Center on the Developing Child) Handout: Serve and Return for Parents & Caregivers (Center on the Developing Child)
- Podcast: The Brain Architects: Serve and Return (Center on the Developing Child) Video: Mini Parenting Master Class with Center Director Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D. (UNICEF)
- Smartphone Apps: Vroom and Kinedu
2. Maintain social connections - Responsive relationships between children and adults, adults and other adults, and children and other children all help buffer us against the effects of ongoing stress.
- Article: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Physical Distancing and Family Wellbeing (Raising Children Network)
- Article: Keeping Classroom Connections Alive (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
- Article: Resources for Supporting Children’s Emotional Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Child Trends)
3. Take a break - When you can find ways to give yourself a break, you’ll return to your children better able to meet their needs and support their development.
- Infographic: What We Can Do About Toxic Stress (Center on the Developing Child) Video: Stress and Resilience: How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It (Center on the Developing Child)
- Brief: The Science of Resilience (Center on the Developing Child)
- Article: COVID-19: Stress and Coping (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Article: COVID-19: Taking Care of Your Emotional Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Tool: Free Meditations for Reducing Stress (Calm.com)
Read or download the guide in English or Spanish here.
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