If you look at pictures of animal mothers in the wild, so often their entire bodies are wrapped around their babies.

If they have wings, they surround them.

A pouch tucked safely inside.

Trunks, they are entangled.

It seems fitting that we’ve been asked to stay home and wrap ourselves around our children. This is the time to nurture. Snuggle close and remind our kids that everything will be alright. There are valuable life lessons at the surface level and even more buried deep down. Some of these emotions may be new for our children: uncertainty, deep-weighted justifiable confusion. Our job is to reassure them, even when we don’t have all the answers ourselves. If they are old enough, try honesty.

This can be hard for them to understand, since so much of their world, so far has been in black and white.