This episode is the recording from the webminar Amy Moser and I run on the third week of isolation in London. Our aim is to share five critical strategies for parents to adapt how they go about doing things.

1) Where is your energy? in the past? or in the future? or now?

2) How to set successful routines

3) Conflict resolution for siblings

4) Don'ts and Do's when children are sad or emotional

5) Focussing your attention: what can you manage, what can you influence.

After two weeks with a complete new family routine, what is happening? how is it working? what's making it work? In this episode I share with you the insight from my conversation with young people:

How are young people feeling? what they are telling me?

What is helping them?

What great ideas I have seen in place?

Going forward, what could happen once this is over, what learnings can we take with us.

While the experiences will differ from one house to another, I hope these ideas give you energy and food for thought so you can make the most of your time with your family.

March 2020, a large proportion of countries have imposed lockdown during the coronavirus crisis. Families are preparing themselves for several weeks of isolation. The routines we worked hard to establish are gone.

It is understandable for parents to be worried about the next few weeks. But there is an alternative, there are choices.

In this episode, I share three strategies to make the most of these weeks. My aim is that, in the future, when you look back to these days, you can tell yourself "I made the most of a difficult situaiton and my children learnt from it."

I have also published an extended article on the same topic. You can read it here:

https://helpingkids.co.uk/helping-kids-understand-the-coronavirus/