Tips and Strategies for Peaceful Parenting during COVID-19

I want to share with you a few tips to manage the combined challenges of raising children, social distancing, and social isolation.   
Tips and Useful Strategies

Lighten up on demands.

Part of raising kids is to teach healthy habits and values.  In doing so, we make reasonable demands upon them. These habits and values are important but now may be a time to ease up a bit. I hear you if you are saying to yourself that if you do not stay strict, your child will become a slacker who sits around all day. Consider balancing that concern with the value or priority of managing isolation and maintaining harmony in circumstances that can be difficult for everyone staying at home.

Manage your own stress.

First, to maintain your own sanity. Also, stress of a parent often gets passed on to the child and makes everyone a bit more on edge and reactive than they otherwise might be. Carve out time for yourself. ...