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LIFE & STYLE
LIFE & STYLE
Lockdown parenting: It’s time to slow down
Find engaging activities to do together
Find engaging activities to do together | Photo Credit: Deepak Sethi
Chryselle D Silva Dias
27 MARCH 2020 15:03 IST
UPDATED: 30 MARCH 2020 18:40 IST
The next few weeks will see you making great memories with your child and learning that you don’t have to be a super parent all the time
“Mama, let us chat about trains.”
On a normal day, this would have been a perfect way to spend a few quiet moments bonding with my 10-year-old. But it is 7 am, when I am in the bathroom trying to start another day of curfew with some me-time.
Ignore those forwards
Parenting in the time of coronavirus has taken on a whole new meaning with 24x7 access to social media and well-meaning, equally panicky friends. We have all received a dozen or more WhatsApp messages listing colourful DIY timetables, websites and apps that will not only keep your child busy but will also energise his/her brain on holiday. For parents already struggling to keep children busy, are these forwards helping or causing them more pressure?
Business analyst Sayantika Adak Ghosh ignores the WhatsApp messages, when it comes to her six-year-old son. “I have a more instinctive approach,” she says. “Some things are non-negotiable: food, schedule, discipline, behaviour. I let him figure out the rest.”
But Ramya Coushik, a software marketer, natural farmer and parent to two boys, 14 and 11, says they do not have a structure in place “as my boys and I believe that a rigid format would be a killjoy during summer vacations. Not everything gets done every day — they decide the schedule and get to each of the activities a couple of times a week based on their preference. We fit in TV and gaming [a rarity in our household] around the mandatory activities.”
Online lessons
Children in IB and some other schools still have assignments, e-lessons and homework to do. “I am making sure my daughter completes projects even though they may no longer be required to be submitted,” says Mumbai-based Pearl D’Silva, parent to a 10-year-old.
Office-going parents who are now working from home have to be creative in getting things done. “I work for a telecom MNC,” says Sindhu Murthy. During routine meetings and calls, she makes her eight-year-old son sit beside her because he finds them interesting. “I do not mind the WhatsApp forwards. If it looks interesting, I do not think it is a nuisance. Doing these things with my child is more of an escape from this dystopian reality. I would choose making a paper cup ninja over looking through Covid-19 statistics any day.”
A child gardening | Photo Credit: triloks
What’s your style?
In the first few days as countries worldwide began locking down their cities, social media had a lot of fun with memes on homeschooling and working-from-home. Homeschooling parents are having the last laugh, though. Their experience with having children at home all day (and the responsibility of educating them) is holding them in good stead now.
“Scheduling is fluid in our home, because we do not see learning as happening only from textbooks,” says Ijeoma Akomolafe. She and her husband Bayo, both professors, are homeschooling their children aged 6 and 2. “If my older one feels like playing shop all day, then we do so, and she learns to work with math, spelling, English by writing up receipts for the customers.”
For schooling parents, Akomolafe recommends you see this as a ‘gap year’, “a year you allow your kids to ask the most outrageous questions, let them play with mud — a year you learn to listen to them and to your own inner child. Find ways to integrate learning in everyday activities and allow the kids to plan and schedule their learning.”
She also reminds us that, “We are only as healthy as the sickest among us. The times are urgent. Slow down.”
This stressful time will also help us explore what kind of parent we are becoming. Helicopter parents might crash. Try being a hovercraft instead, or a gentler parent gliding over all the bumps in your day. You are still hovering, but there is a lot less noise and potential for hair-tearing scenes.
As for us, we are trying PE with Joe, learning how to be a sous chef and struggling not to finish our stash of tea-time snacks. The discussions about trains, planes and robots can wait until I am out of the bathroom. Which might take a while — these new handwashing guidelines are a sanity-saver.
Moms speak
Earlier, my three-year-old was an outdoor kid and never had screen time. Now that I allow him to watch YouTube (mainly our family vlogs), he is taking some time to adjust to the change. Apart from his sleeping and eating schedule, which remain the same, we take each day as it comes..
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