What you need this week in quarantine

Advice on how to support youth and young adults during this crisis, from psychologists at Child-Mind Institute ((in English and Spanish).

Help for adults talking with kids about the Coronavirus, also from the experts at Child-Mind Institute (in English and Spanish).

From National Geographic Kids, facts about COVID-19.

Warm and wise words for faith leaders and everyone else from Emily Scott.

And so we can take our minds off Coronavirus for just a bit:

Something simple and delicious to make for dinner that kids and adults will love.

Guided MeditOcean (meditation) at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, with jellies, or the kelp forest, or the rocky shore, or the open sea.

I hope you can get out for a walk, breathe air that’s clean, and be among the trees. At least, you can hear Mary Oliver’s poem, “When I am among the trees.”

And listen to a virtual orchestra playing Aaron Copeland’s Appalachian Spring.

Take good care, lovies. This is hard.