For current expert tips and advice, visit:
COVID Resource Guide for Parents and Caregivers
Understanding coronavirus 101
- What families and caregivers need to know about coronavirus
- Social distancing and quarantining: What you need to know
Being a professional caregiver during the pandemic
- 6 questions nannies and sitters should ask before caring for kids during COVID-19
- 6 smart things to do right now for your job search
- Caregivers hit by job loss during COVID-19: Tips and advice you need
- FAQs about employment and benefits during COVID-19
- How to file for unemployment if you’re a caregiver or housekeeper
- How to provide child care while parents are home and make it work
- How senior caregivers can care for themselves during coronavirus
Hiring and employing caregivers during coronavirus
- Questions to ask child caregivers during COVID-19
- Without a bailout, child care centers may not survive the pandemic
- A love letter to my kids’ babysitter (You are missed.)
- Can I schedule a house cleaner and what safety measures should I take?
- Should I continue paying my nanny, babysitter or day care during the pandemic?
- FAQs for managing household employees during COVID-19
Parenting during a pandemic
- Fun ways to keep kids social (at a safe distance)
- 18 fun ways to celebrate kids’ birthdays during COVID
- Staying sane and self-compassionate during a stressful year (podcast)
- 14 moms who’ve had babies during the pandemic share the best and worst parts
- Talking to kids about job loss: What to say and how to say it
- Raising a resilient child (podcast)
- Why we need to help kids plan for the future now more than ever — and how we can help
- Keeping my kid from his grandparents has been our family’s pandemic heartbreak
- What’s “too much screentime” for kids in the era of COVID-19? (podcast)
- Supporting your teen during COVID-19 (podcast)
- Managing anxiety amid coronavirus
- I’m a parent with COVID-19 symptoms: What should I do?
Looking out for kids health and safety
- 5 critical kids health tips for fall, according to medical experts
- COVID-19 vaccines and kids: What we do (and don’t) know so far
- What’s a fever in children, when to worry and when you can chill
- How to talk to kids about face masks and tips to get them used to wearing one
- COVID-19 has more parents putting off their kids’ vaccinations and experts are concerned
- 5 myths about face masks and kids: What experts say parents need to know
- Face masks on kids at day care: Are they worth the effort?
Planning for school and education
Planning for the holidays
Assessing the effects on working moms
- The pandemic’s impact on working moms (podcast)
- Amid COVID-19, nearly 1 million women forced out of work in September alone
- I quit my job due to the pandemic and feel like a failure as a working mom
Balancing work and life
- How COVID-19 is setting women back decades, at both work and at home
- Child care costs more in 2020, and the pandemic has parents scrambling for solutions
- Could ‘double bubbles’ be the pandemic-inspired child care solution of the future?
- COVID-19 reveals an already broken system for working families in America
- Care.com 2020 Work + Life Report
- How to successfully work from home with kids
Caring for seniors during COVID-19
- COVID-19 meets flu season: How seniors and caregivers can prepare
- Black seniors are harder hit by COVID-19 — here’s why
- Is it safe to take my senior loved one to the hospital during COVID-19?
- What seniors and caregivers need to know about coronavirus
- What to do when grandparents want to visit during the COVID-19 crisis
- Caregiving during a global pandemic
- Being a family caregiver during a crisis
- 7 ways families can stay connected to senior loved ones during COVID-19
