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).
- What is the Coronavirus?
- How many days have we been in our Stay at Home order?
- Do you want to go back to doing our outside activities?
- Who is the first person you are going to hug when our Stay at Home order is over?
- Where is the first place you want to go?
- What do you think we can do to get rid of the Coronavirus?
- Are mommy and daddy good teachers?
- How did the Coronavirus start?
- If you had to wear protective clothing to help you what would it be?
- Are you enjoying our Stay at Home order?
- Do you know what a Stay at Home order is?
- 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.
