Should you let your children play with other children?(from Frank)

As more and more schools close around the world, parents are wrestling with what their children can and can't do. Should your child go out and play with friends? Or does social distancing mean an end to their playtime? If Katherine Wilson could go back and change anything, she says she wouldn't have had that family dinner at the neighbours' home. Two weeks ago, when Covid-19 was spreading throughout Italy but the government had not yet mandated that people stay in their homes, the mum of two teenagers in Rome got an invitation to a small dinner party with two other families. "My husband and I thought oh we're in somebody's apartment, it's not like it's some big gathering," she tells the BBC. At the time, Ms Wilson, an American writer who is married to an Italian, says her and many other mums were treating the recent school closures as an extended holiday. "It's like: 'Oh this is great, it's kind of like a little vacation, let's go to that park we never get to go to.'"