Family Well-Being
Family Well-Being at Home
Local Resources
- Stay updated with information about COVID-19 from Children’s Mercy. En español.
- Children’s Mercy also has helpful tips from experts on how to talk to kids about COVID-19.
- Project Send Love is linking generations together through letter writing from Children’s Mercy Hospital.
- Missouri PTA has a list of educational resources for families during school closures.
- KC Healthy Kids has a list of COVID-19 updates, along with mindfulness and self-care resources.
Tips for Parents
- Tips from Children’s Mercy on how to talk to your teenager, and help them cope with missing activities during the pandemic.
- Additional tips from Children’s Mercy’s Parent-ish with ideas to invigorate your kids’ social-distancing routine.
- Strategies for single parenting during the COVID-19. En español.
- A webinar recording on methods to help families meet the demands of distance learning for their children. NEW
- Working and Learning from Home: tips to help your family cope with the “new normal” from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Positive Parenting & COVID-19: 10 tips to help keep the calm at home.
- Downloadable parenting tips to encourage healthy lifestyles and behaviors during COVID-19 from the World Health Organization.
- How to manager anger and frustration as a parent during COVD-19.
- Parent tips for making space to work out with kids around. NEW
Caring for Each Other
- A Parent/Caregiver Guide to help families cope with COVID-19.
- A step-by-step guide to create a family self-care plan. NEW
- Sesame Street has some suggestions on how to handle health emergencies.
- Sesame Street also has some fun ideas to help your family find ways to breathe, laugh, and play together.
- Walkabouts describes how active learning activities can encourage children to enhance their own self-awareness skills.
- The “My Hero is You, How kids can fight COVID-19!” children’s book explains how children can protect themselves, their families and friends from coronavirus. En español.
Dealing with Stress
- Mental Health information, tools and resources to use during COVID-19.
- Coping With COVID is an illustrated short story for children that explains the pandemic and offers encouragement. En español.
- Seattle Children’s Hospital developed 4 science-backed strategies to build resilience during COVID-19.
- A guide to teach kids how to use mindfulness and journaling to manage anxiety and stress. NEW
- A PDF with information on how to help homebound children during a pandemic, from the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress.
- Five helpful responses for families dealing with stress during COVID-19. En español.
- Sesame Street has activities that help young children manage their emotions, add playful learning activities to daily routines, and get some healthy exercise.
- Guidance from the CDC on how to handle stress and coping at home and in your community.
- Resources for parents balancing work, child care, and self-care.
- Tips for parents on dealing with anxiety and how to manage it during COVID-19.
- Tips to manage stress and take time for self-care during COVID-19. En español.
- A short read for parents about how to stay focused and embrace the challenge of COVID-19.
- Resources to help with managing stress.
- Ways that parents can manage emotional responses during stressful times.
Special Needs
- Little Puddins, The Autism Educator created a Coronavirus Social Narrative to help alleviate fears and anxiety many children may be experiencing at this time.
- How to help children with attention problems navigate remote learning. NEW
Please check back later for more Fit-Tastic! at Home resources as we continue to update this list!
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