Quarantine came as a surprise to each of us. Including for our children, which did not have a transition period, to get used to the online form of education. Because of these changes, everyone feels stressed in one way or another.
If your child does not talk about it, what bothers her, then she can show it by her behavior. Children feel tense, which is happening around, feel, that people worry about their health, that there are certain restrictions on movement and being on the street, that these rules must be followed, while the weather is great and sitting at home is very difficult. Teachers are also human and react differently to stress, sometimes by giving their students too much homework.
Due to the stress itself, children's ability to maintain attention and show interest in learning can decrease. Therefore, the challenge for parents is to help their child cope with stress and survive the quarantine while maintaining mental health.: his and the child's.
And you can use different means. We talk about them below.
Organize a daily routine:
- Help your child in creating a schedule.
- Pay attention to breaks.
- Determine the time, which child needs to finish homework, so that their execution is not stretched by the night.
- which usually makes you happy or happy, What is your student / A student is a child, who wants to do his own business: play, draw, watch movies and cartoons. Therefore, in the daily routine, introduce the "free time" column - and the child will find something to do. However, be prepared to offer something.
- Alternate training with a variety of activities
Respect and take care of your personal space and your child.
- If the child is busy, That's not worth distracting her to other things.
- If you also work from home, then explain, When you are busy, To be less worried at this time.
Be sure to take a break for lunch. That's the time, When you with your baby can be together.
Help your child do exercise, And to music it is still fun. Many children's idols are now showing online, what charging they do on self -isolation. Quarantine will end someday, and your child will develop a habit of exercising.
In the evening, organize time for family communication:
- Board games will be needed. If they are bored, then draw a "roaming" game with the child on Whatman, the plot "Quarantine" or something else.
- You can create collages on various topics from a pile of old magazines.
- remember, who will have a birthday, and create a greeting card or something with your own hands.
- You can create a doll from old things.
- Make up stories.
- Invite the child to create an experiment and take notes on it. Example, let the child plant in different vessels (banks) beans and will place them in different ways: horizontally, vertically, head up, upside down. The child will observe, how fast it will sprout depends, how it was planted. The child is busy studying interesting things, and parents can rest.
- Dream about it, what will you do after quarantine.
- Create a wall calendar for this month and mark the days, spent in quarantine. Don't blink an eye, how soon it will end.
Many writers today read their books online, тому дитина в навушниках може прослухати цікаві історії. А батьки матимуть нагоду перепочити і присвятити цей час собі.
Не забувайте казати дитині, що все буде добре.
but in moderation, для вас ці поради виглядають простими, проте за ними є великий сенс. Ваша дитина уважно спостерігає за тим, як ви справляєтесь із ситуацією. Тому не підведіть її і продемонструйте приклад, як ви контролюєте себе, допомагаєте їй впоратись з карантином і прийняти нові виклики.
*Автор:
Олена Соловйова — дитяча та підліткова психологиня, спеціалістка Центру психосоціальної реабілітації НаУКМА.
