"We live strange days", sang Battiato in 1996. Of course he could not imagine what we would have had to live almost twenty-five years later. Perhaps not even Kubrick or Hitchcock would have been able to write the subject of a film like what we sometimes seem to live: an invisible enemy, capable of passing sneakily from one person to another, infecting them.

Certainly many of you are facing the thorny question of how to explain to children what is happening. The health emergency of the coronavirus is a phenomenon that has drastically changed everyone's lifestyle, causing social and psychological repercussions.

"Diseases that elude the heart devour the body" (Hippocrates)

In our direct and indirect experience we have generally experienced, at least once in life, physical pain or ailments in the absence of external causes.

The current emergency situation is putting us to the test. Home quarantine pushes people to have an anxious-depressive attitude that often makes them lose sight of themselves.

"When the sky is the roof and the teaching tools are the fields and nature ..."

Modern society has imposed a series of socio-cultural changes that have led to a progressive removal of man from his environment and made the necessary contact with nature more difficult.

On the evening of March 9, the news of the extension of the protected area to the whole national territory as a containment measure for the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19. 

For a people accustomed to physical contact, to a sociality that makes us famous in the world, having to force themselves to the distance, change the way to greet, work and live everyday life is not to be underestimated. Nonetheless, it is now a ministerial ordinance "having to change your lifestyle". 

The family is a structured open system based on a hierarchy of roles e borders internal and external functional stability (between the core components and in society in general). In respect of these fundamental axioms, the adult / parent becomes the witness of the passage of those principles and those rules that allow children to orient themselves in the world and reach a sufficient individual balance, because it is within the family that everyone's maturing process towards acquiring an identity begins.