Parenting During A Pandemic
While reading this, you’re probably at home with your child. This pandemic has been made for trying times. It can be challenging even going about your daily chores and tasks. It is at this time that you must be contemplating how to help your child to continue pursuing their dreams, keep learning, and growing. It is normal to feel more concerned about your child’s future when seemingly, the world’s future, in this pandemic is uncertain. There are simple ways to ease your worries for your child and work with a plan.
Don’t let the pandemic disrupt your hopes and aspirations for the future. After all, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. If your growing anxiety hasn’t found comforting words, here are a few ways you can support your child and their dreams from home.
1.Encourage Creativity
Now is an exceptional time to hone artistic skills like painting, music, dance, writing, and more. Such activities will keep your child engaged and give them a creative outlet for their thoughts. Artistic pursuits encourage innovative and out-of-the-box thinking. Most top schools abroad look for new ideas and students who bring them to their campus. One need not necessarily be an arts or humanities student to practice such activities. Even for science students, it is a way to think in abstract manners.
2.Maintain Social Connection Digitally
Well, man is a social animal so, maintaining that social connection is imperative. Given the circumstances, you can partake in digital meetings using video conferencing, chatting, and many more mediums. In this manner, one can stay in touch with the outside world from the safety of their homes. For yourself as well as your child, maintaining social relationships keeps loneliness at bay and helps keep up mental health. The current health crisis has affected millions of people everywhere, draw strength from your near and dear ones.
3.Explore New Interests
Encourage your child to take up only courses that pique their interest and perhaps, sit in with them for a lesson or two. Even though schools and colleges are closed, your child’s learning should continue. Firstly, they will come across many new ideas and concepts that will build their knowledge. It will also give them a chance to explore interests that they could not pursue before. Lastly, when the situation returns to normalcy, your child will have an added advantage with these completed courses to support them.
4.Work and Play Together
Perform daily chores around the house together and involve your child in your daily routine as well. Something as simple as exercising together can deepen the bond that you share. If you are working from home, spare time in the evening to watch television together or play board games. The idea is to give your child the comfort and confidence that they can rely on you during tough times. Lend them your ear and share your thoughts with them as well. You can forge a stronger relationship with your child.
Understandably, this pandemic has brought about trouble and worries in its wake, yet you must strive to stay optimistic. Even on the path to studying abroad, you and your child will face challenges, but you must try to overcome them together.
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