For our over 70s, we know you are the most vulnerable, but we also know that many of you are vibrant, with active lives. But you are at greater risk from this virus, so please be careful. Stay at home. To parents that are going to have their children at home—and I don't imagine anybody thinks that the next four weeks won't be without a tiny bit of strain—please take the following advice. Don't try to recreate the school environment at home, don't download the curriculum or set recess breaks, and don't break your house up into classroom areas. You're not being asked to home-school your children. The best thing to do is to do things with them. Play board games, do the dishes, sing a song, help with the laundry, give them alone time and some screen time. You need to show them that while things are not the same, they will be all right. You are not their teachers; you are their parents and their family members, their whānau—be a family, but follow the official advice.