{"id":31492,"date":"2020-03-16T23:57:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31492"},"modified":"2020-03-16T23:57:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:57:51","slug":"briefly-talk-with-your-children-about-fears-they-might-experience-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31492","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Talk with your children about fears they might experience in crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Talk-to-your-children.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31493\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Talk-to-your-children.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Talk-to-your-children.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Talk-to-your-children-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have children, it\u2019s important to deal with how they might be feeling as they react to the fears of COVID-19 as the danger grows. There\u2019s a lot of fear among adults right now, but children are even less equipped to handle fears they sense from adults around them. My friend Josh Whitman has experience doing a lot of things and one of them is school administration. Josh and his wife are raising two young sons of their own in a Birmingham suburb, and he\u2019s been thinking a lot for the last few weeks about how this societal fear affects children. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@joshuawhitman\/how-to-talk-with-kids-about-coronavirus-covid-19-a58cfe1484d5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He\u2019s written a short article<\/a> giving some wise and insightful tips with concrete steps you can take to help your children during this time of crisis \u2014 things which might not have occurred to me \u2014 so I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have children, it\u2019s important to deal with how they might be feeling as they react to the fears of COVID-19 as the danger grows. There\u2019s a lot of fear among adults right now, but children are even less equipped to handle fears they sense from adults around them. My friend Josh Whitman has <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=31492\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8bW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31494,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492\/revisions\/31494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}