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After some brief discussions with my 8- and 11-year-old children, I made the decision to sit them down to watch this video of an ER nurse in Michigan who speaks about what she is experiencing on the "front lines," as her hospital has run out of ventilators, masks and such basic medications as Tylenol. She talks about her feelings of suddenly being forced into making life and death decisions she'd never signed up for.

My kids had an immediate reaction: a moment of mouth-gaping astonishment followed by a joint conclusion that they didn't want me to drive them to the Starbucks drive-through after all.

"That's called increasing your chances for good luck, with good judgment," I said.

My pillow talk with my 8-year-old son did include death: "Are you going to get the Coronavirus, mommy? If you get it, are you going to die?"

Kids are faced with death in many other contexts, from grandparents dying naturally to the suicide of peers—and I'm okay with keeping the blinders off. I don't see any benefit in shielding children from the truth, including worst-case scenarios that would directly impact them. Instead, I view this as a time to arm them with the communication skills and emotional tools to process unsettling information in a way that leaves them feeling more empowered tha

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