for those of y'all that this is your first time.

This is, really just a way for us to stay connected

during school closures.

Obviously, Khan Academy we have many resources

for students, teachers and parents to be able to work

whether the school is in session physically,

or, whether it's happening at home,

as I think most of y'all are now having to cope with.

And we realize, above and beyond those resources,

in math and English and language arts, and science

and humanities that go from pre-K through college,

that we need to provide more support.

It's our duty as a not for profit with a mission

to provide a free world class education for anyone,

anywhere to step up right now in this time of crisis.

And so that's why we're doing teacher webinars,

parent webinars, this daily homeroom live stream

for everyone as well as, things like, the daily schedules

that many of y'all are now leveraging.

To think about how to structure your days,

for students of different age groups.

I will remind everyone as I always do,

that we are a not for profit organization.

And, we are supportive, the only reason we can exist

is because of philanthropic donations

from folks like yourself.

And even before this crisis, we were operating at a deficit

and now during this crisis, our server traffic

is up two and a half, approaching three times

our registrations from students and parents,

are actually students and teachers are six fold,

parent registrations are 20 fold.

So if you're in a position to do so,

please think about donating to Khan Academy.

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who stepped up in record time when they realized

that we needed help and not just generally,

but especially in this COVID response period.

Bank of America stepped up in that first weekend,

followed by AT&T, Google.org and now Novartis,

this has been incredible help.

Any of you who are corporate leaders

or work for corporations, we need more help.

So I would love to add logos to this.

And for all of you individuals out there,

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So every donation matters, whether it's as small

as the $3 donation, $5, $10.

We know that that is hard earned money

and, we really appreciate it, but we really do need it,

if we wanna support kids around the world,

and parents and teachers.

So today we have a fairly exciting live stream.

We have a clinical psychologist, David Anderson.

I encourage everyone, I say this every time

to start putting questions on Facebook and YouTube

that you might have for either our guest, Dave

or myself about anything,

but we're gonna talk about something

that is very front of mind for a lot of folks right now.

We are all socially distanced.

Many of us have kids at home,

kids are trying to stay learning,

but there's many other things that are going on

in all of our minds.

Anxiety is up, stress is up for everyone.

And I'm hoping Dave can help us navigate.

And I'm speaking not just as a representative

of the Khan Academy community.

I'm also speaking as a parent who has seen some of,

some of our, some of the difficulties

of what we're going through.

So thanks for joining us, Dave.

And you know, maybe the first question

is any general advice you have for parents

and students who are just trying

to cope with everything going on right now.

- Right, well, look, thanks for having me.

It's wonderful to be able to be here

and to have a forum to kind of talk

about some of these things.

You know, we have a practice on both coasts,

about 60 clinicians in Child Mind Institute,

and we're hearing a lot from parents and students.

I would say that, you know, the first things

that are the top of mind,

especially for parents are to manage expectations.

I mean, the biggest thing is that none of us

have encountered challenges like this before.

And I count myself within that with two children.

You know, and something we're trying to manage

the work lives that we were, attempted managed

before this crisis hit with childcare

and without many of the major supports that we have,

you know, a time of online schooling is tough.

It's gonna be tough for anybody.

So, some of the first things we talked

to parents about are taking it to do lists

and that kind of level of perfectionism

they would normally expect of themselves.

And really trying to edit those things down

as much as possible to ensure

that there's something manageable each day.

And you have a moment to kind of mindfully pause

and perhaps enjoy some of the silver linings

of this in terms of time spent with family

and an opportunity to connect a little bit more.

- And what should we keep a lookout on,

for our children or even for ourselves?

I know you focus on children especially,

but as a just a clinical psychologist generally,

you know, I think sometimes you can,

things can happen in bits and pieces

and you know, you've gone too far before and it's too late.

And, what should we look out for,

signs of difficulty in our kids or even ourselves.

- I mean the reality to your point,

is we always say this thing that child therapy

is so much about it being mediated by the parents,

and parents aren't necessarily

the cause of the child's particular difficulties,

but they're often the solution.

So we spent, probably about a half the time

spending talking to parents even when the child

might be the particular focus of our intervention

and you know, in terms of how parents can support kids

at the moment and what we can,

we can help them to think about,

especially with online schooling,

cause I'll go back to one of your earlier questions.

It's that, you know, we're, everybody's adapting

this kind of new normal like, schools are trying

to outline assignments in certain ways

and make it so that, it's manageable for the kids

and they may not necessarily be getting data in real time

from parents related to what the kids can handle

and what kind of scaffolding they need.

I think the kids we're especially concerned

about at the moment, for our clinical population

are those with mental health and learning disorders

that normally are supported in allowing them access

to a school curriculum in school,

but which, you know, we may see

a lack of those kinds of support services

or where parents are being asked to be therapists,

speech language pathologist and teacher all in one.

And that's something that's exceedingly

difficult for everybody right now.

- And how are you all supporting those parents

or supporting those students?

- Yeah, a lot of it is, retooling our clinical services

to be digital at this time.

So in many ways we're starting from a kind of population

focused prevention level, in that Child Mind Institute

now has two Facebook lives per day.

I did a section on the website, which you can see here

on Coronavirus support and resources

just for supporting families and includes

links to our daily tips and Facebook lives.

A link to phone consultations that we can provide right now

for families that are having difficulty.

And then also articles that are really focused

on coping with Coronavirus crisis.

We've tried to make those articles targeted to age groups,

to parents stress management, incorporation of mindfulness,

and then specific diagnostic clusters

where parents may be experiencing

a certain kind of unique difficulties,

say for kids on the autism spectrum

or kids who might have difficulty with behavior.

So I thank you for scrolling through that section

of our website right there.

You can also, I'll be doing these Facebook lives

twice next week, so if folks have questions

that go unanswered between you and me, Sal,

they can catch me again a little bit later.

- No, this is super useful.

And then we're getting a lot of interesting questions

here for you Dave.

This first one is from YouTube.

Molly Franklin asks, as an extrovert,

how can I keep from losing my mind during quarantine?

Exclamation mark.

- That's a really good question.

I mean, you know, I think that in many ways

we've seen an explosion of these kinds of self categorizing

terms on Twitter and on the internet right now,

where folks realize like in terms of the definition

of extrovert, we see it operationalized right now

and on the internet as somebody who really gets their energy

and really feels like their mood gets a boost

in any given day, from the contact, the close contact

in person that they have with other people,

that's where they get their energy.

And so look, what we try to do at first

is help extroverts to, cope in a sort of accepting way,

in that, we know that it's not gonna be the best

in terms of how to support their mental health right now.

We know that a lot of the ways

that they would normally draw energy

or get a mood boost are not available to them.

So it's about thinking as creatively as possible.

We try to assess with people,

what the level of relationship is with anybody

they might currently be socially distancing with,

how they can make the most

of those safe in-person connections.

And then similarly how they can connect with others

to just do daily activities kind of together,

in the sense that can you watch a TV show together?

Are there online games you can connect with

and play with other people?

And I'll give one last, quite creative suggestion

I've seen from some of the teenagers I treat,

which is social distancing walks,

in a sense that they'll meet up across a block

from each other, never be on the same side of the street,

but at least feel like they're walking together

and can look at each other, you know, in person.

- That's fascinating cause I think the rational part

of our brain says, why does it matter

if we're watching that, you know

that Netflix show at the same time.

But to your point there is something

deep inside of us that says,

Oh, other people are experiencing it at the same time.

- And that's the thing, I'm deep into cheer right now.

Next up is Tiger King.

But I think for all of us, it's that,

you know, if we don't have a partner

or another family member to watch with,

it becomes a question of can we watch with a friend

or, you know, do this over some sort of online forum

where somebody is on FaceTime at the same time

as we're watching on television

and we're watching in real time together.

It at least gives some sense of shared experience,

particularly for extroverts really feed off that.

We even see people - And that's some of the logic

- Cook the same food together.

Sorry, yeah.

- Oh, that's cool.