Time Capsule: Questions to Ask Kids About Coronavirus

This is a strange time we’re living in. COVID-19 has made 2020 a year for the history books and it feels like a good time to chronicle our experience — especially to hear the perspective of our smallest citizens.

This is an interesting exercise to capture what your children are feeling about the pandemic and the effects of it — think of it as a Coronavirus time capsule of sorts.

Ask your child the following Coronavirus time capsule questions and write down what they say (include their age for reference).

1. What is the Coronavirus?
2. How many days have we been in our Stay at Home order?
3. Do you want to go back to doing our outside activities?
4. Who is the first person you are going to hug when our Stay at Home order is over?
5. Where is the first place you want to go?
6. What do you think we can do to get rid of the Coronavirus?
7. Are mommy and daddy good teachers?
8. How did the Coronavirus start?
9. If you had to wear protective clothing to help you what would it be?
10. Are you enjoying our Stay at Home order?
11. Do you know what a Stay at Home order is?
12. What do you miss about “normal” life?

Be sure to date the answers to these questions before tucking them away in your “time capsule” for a later date. We plan on pulling them out in a year or so (if we remember!) and hopefully reflect on them in a safer time. We may answer these questions again in a month or so – just to see if their answers have changed.