COMPOSITION – Write about city life during lockdown in about 250 words.( HINTS: closure of schools
and offices, shut down of malls and food points, impact on people in general; illustrate with
newspaper cuttings-2 to4 / drawings)
Answers
Answer:
I think this is useful
Explanation:
The coronavirus outbreak is affecting people across India in different ways. For parents of school-going kids across the country, the experience has been overwhelming and exhausting.
Around mid-March, when several Indian states sprung into action to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, their first step was to shut schools. Initially, the shutdown was meant to be till March 31, but it has now been extended till April 15, when the 21-day national lockdown concludes.
Schools are shut. All out-of-home activities and social interactions have stopped, too. In such times, keeping kids engaged with creative activities that they find interesting is tough,” said Aarti Laxmanan, a corporate communications professional at a Noida-based packaging company. Laxmanan has been working from home while taking care of her daughters aged six and four years.
Quartz spoke with nearly a dozen Indian parents who are in the same boat as Laxmanan to understand how they are managing work-from-home with their kids always around them, sometimes demanding attention subtly and at other times pounding at their laptops to pull them away from work.
The interruption
While kids are idle at home, their parents are not on holiday. Most companies in India have mandated their employees to work from home, which can be jarring to adapt to overnight. This sudden change is beginning to cause stress.
“As kids find their parents at home, they expect us to do things that we do during weekends, like play with them or take them out,” said Zainab Cutlerywala, a human resource professional living in Pune with her five-year-old kid. “Kids don’t understand the urgency of parents attending calls and replying to emails. Stress begins when you have to manage both.