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How would you make your children learn during this Lockdown??

Vicissitude of fortune had brought the whole world together in an adamantine scenerio,where it is stern to predict the future of social ,economical, political propensity. It seems like system of whole world has come to a timeless stop. We all stand in assistance of one other and waiting anxiously for this inexorable situation to come to an end.

Facing this extemporaneous calamity, we are spend-thrifting the time by not scheduling our routine. For the sake of example I wanted to take you to the tour of a living room of a house where there are middle- aged people who are scrolling down their social media apps to the endless posts and there’s  thin air of anyone guessing what they are looking for . There is mother who had been so macabre over the death of someone at distant galaxy. There’s father who had been  rummaging the death toll due to Corona . Butt I wanted you to divert your attention to the people who are so conjured by moving and animation pictures on the TV that they are unaware of their surroundings and belongings, these young people have mastered their sole right of watching TV without any interruption. They have overdone this so nobody’s feeling any air of difference anymore.

This unchecked attitude of kindergarten or burgeoning students is not viable as their energy have been drowning into something absurd or less-productive. It possibly imply that children development might get effected in this way. There are five stages of children development in which first and most significant is cognitive development in which you enable your child to solve the problems by applying the intuitive sense. Social and emotional development are milestones in their aftermath. Then there comes the language recognition and development where child learn to utter the simple to complex sentence. After which mental growth and gross motor skills development come.

So the question is  how are you making your child to work on these grounds even when you are at your home ,pointed at the most calm and peaceful place where you would be okay with the thought of sitting idle and having fun. So let us begin our exercise to teach your children in this lockdown. First of all, You have to understand that it is your responsibility to teach your child because he is not going anywhere, not even school, or kindergarten. So it is your utmost duty to train your child as much as you can. You mayprepare yourself for home schooling your child which you may haven’t or have done before. But in this worst situation you are not left with any other choice except this.  So how are you gonna make this happen? First of all,  Do not Persuade your child in an aggressive way .Make them sit around you and tell them gently that now it’s been lockdown in whole world and you have to manage your time accordingly. You don’t have to waste your time by sitting idle. Or just watching the television and cartoons. But instead of that you must Look forward to do something Initiative, something that could be of more benefit or might be more advantageous when it comes to enhance your cognitive and learning abilities. Secondly, become the friends of your children. You may not create any kind of emotional gap by suggesting them that you are in a lead and the children must obey you. It may make your child obstinate. Try something more fun that which would productive and creative in its own nature. For example, You can buy flash cards where there’s some geographical  or scientific content  published and children could learn them by flipping around. Bring some books to your children which would be containing Some moral stuff in them ,would be giving some good lesson at the end. Children would like that very much and they would definitely learn something from this book. This is very crucial in the development of your child, because these books and their novelty characters shall make them learn  civilization and the morality. It is a very good chance to introduce your child with the historical and important characters of past dignity of your country or your religion in leisure. It is an ideal time and Your children would definitely take interest in that because they would be far far away from the hectic school activities where they had spent time in  cramming their lessons or were subjected to rude gradings and examinations.

Train your child in a skillful  way and make them practice this skill. For example, children make scientific projects and Toys from some harmless chemicals that would be very productive and you can sell them online so that your children would gain some pride of earning. There are amazing videos of Slime making and clay toys tutorials on YouTube. You can search them very well and you can make your child make those things accordingly. Trust me, that would be very creative and entertaining. Meanwhile,you can make your child learn to save money. This would make them mature ,would make them learn the significance of money. There are many concerning parents who are definitely worried about their children’s future in this dilemma But are unable to help them, so I gave out some tricks by which you can help your child learn in this lockdown. I hope that you liked my ideas and suggestions. You may apply them gently on your children so that their growth and their burgeoning capacity won’t be diminished.

(the Author is currently working as House Officer at Allied Hospital Faisalabad, Pakistan).

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