How Working Parents Can Prepare for Coronavirus Closures

Due to coronavirus, working parents face a complex set of questions about how to manage not only potential work closures but also potential school and daycare closures. To prepare, you should do the following things.

Talk to your boss. Now is the time to speak to them, one-on-one.

Get on the same page as your parenting partner. You should begin, proactively, to talk about possible solutions.

Consider how you will use technology to make things work for all of you.

Remember the bigger picture. As working parents, we can use this scary time as an opportunity to talk about what matters most and how we work together as a team.