108: How to cope with the Coronavirus pandemic
b'In this episode we discuss how to cope with parents\\u2019 and children\\u2019s fear and anxiety related to the Coronavirus pandemic, how to keep the children busy so you can get some work done (without resorting to hours of screen time), and how to use the time that you are focused on them to develop your family relationships as well as their learning, rather than you driving each other nuts.\\n\\nTo download a FREE sample routine to help you organize your days, and also join a FREE one-week workshop to give you the tools you need to cope with this situation, please go to yourparentingmojo.com/coronavirus\\n\\n \\n\\nOther episodes mentioned in this show\\n\\nTalk Sex Today\\n\\nUnderstanding the AAP\\u2019s new screen time guidelines\\n\\nRaising your child in a digital world\\n\\n \\n\\nResources\\n\\nList of video conferencing companies offering free services\\n\\nGeocaching website\\n\\nNature journaling videos with John Muir Laws\\n\\n \\n\\n[accordion]\\n\\n[accordion-item title="Click here to read the full transcript"]\\n\\nHello, and welcome to the Your Parenting Mojo podcast!\\xa0 I know that listeners who have been with me for a while know that an episode is going to be different when I dispense with the music at the beginning \\u2013 I think the last time I did this was six months ago when I announced that I was taking a break from the show.\\xa0 But have no fear; I\\u2019m not going anywhere \\u2013 I just did it today to indicate that this is not a normal show because these are not normal times.\\xa0 I\\u2019m recording this on March 15 2020, four days after the World Health Organization declared that the coronavirus outbreak is a pandemic, which means it is dispersed across a very wide geographic area and affects many individuals at the same time.\\xa0 Many, many things have been canceled in the last few days \\u2013 most schools are canceled for at least the next few weeks; big events are canceled or postponed, and we\\u2019re being advised to practice \\u2018social distancing\\u2019 by remaining six feet apart from other people.\\n\\nThis all seems really big and super stressful and I\\u2019m not going to go into the details of much of the epidemiological information because frankly that isn\\u2019t my specialty.\\xa0 But I also know that a lot of you are struggling with issues that very much do fall into my wheelhouse \\u2013 things like \\u201cwhat on earth am I going to do with my kids for the next six weeks when we usually start to get on each other\\u2019s nerves on day six of a vacation,\\u201d and \\u201cwill my child get behind on school work,\\u201d and \\u201chow am I going to still get my own WORK work done so I can get paid and keep us afloat while we\\u2019re all cooped up in this tiny space?\\u201d\\n\\nSo in this episode I\\u2019m going to cover two main things \\u2013 firstly, resources for you, because you may well be feeling quite anxious and approaching the end of your rope already and unsure how you\\u2019re going to make it through the coming weeks.\\n\\nThen we\\u2019ll talk about issues that affect your children while we\\u2019re going through this and how to answer your children\\u2019s questions about the virus and how to be thoughtful about screen time when it seems like there\\u2019s nothing else to do and also how to support their learning while they\\u2019re out of school.\\n\\nAnd because I know some of you are REALLY stressed out about this, I also want to let you know about a FREE one-week workshop that I\\u2019m running starting on March 23rd.\\xa0It draws together elements of many of the paid workshops and memberships that I\\u2019ve built over the last few...'