From DIY hacks to reading, 5 ways parents can keep kids engaged during coronavirus lockdown
4 years, 8 months ago

From DIY hacks to reading, 5 ways parents can keep kids engaged during coronavirus lockdown

India Today  

Running out of ideas on how keep your kids both happy and productive during the extended lock down? Isn't it a good idea to utilise these days to develop good habits, try DIY hacks and enhance personal learnings during the leisure time? It's time to put on the creative hat and bond a little more with your kids during the quarantine while you stay home and stay safe. Have your kids use their little fingerprints to craft these pretty poppy flowers, cute love bugs, dandelion or bunny and chicks and re-live your childhood days. Read: Coronavirus outbreak: Here's how companies are ensuring employee satisfaction amid Covid-19 crisis Resd: 7 tips and tricks to work from home like a pro!

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15 Things You Need To Keep Your Kid Entertained During Quarantine
2 years, 11 months ago

15 Things You Need To Keep Your Kid Entertained During Quarantine

Huff Post  

MoMo Productions via Getty Images Thanks to the ongoing omicron-fueled COVID surge, this has certainly turned out to be the winter of our discontent — for parents, especially. Depending on where you live, some kids started the year remotely, while others went back to the classroom only for school to be quickly shut down due to COVID spread. On a …

5 useful home activities for children during Covid-19 lockdown
4 years, 7 months ago

5 useful home activities for children during Covid-19 lockdown

India Today  

We are very patriotically following the instructions given by our government in preventing Covid-19 spread by abiding to the rules of lockdown. The lockdown has raised the screen times by many folds, hence incorporating different activities as mentioned below, in a day's schedule can somewhere help divert our children from screen. Teaching Household chores like cooking, setting up the dinner …

Quarantine Diaries: Dealing With Kids
4 years, 7 months ago

Quarantine Diaries: Dealing With Kids

Huff Post  

Quarantine Diaries is a communal project of stories from our readers about how they are managing their lives during the coronavirus crisis. When we get back home, it’s school work and then life skills. As a school secretary myself and my husband already working from home, we are a pretty normal family with three kids: an 18-year-old high school senior, …

4 Life Skills Parents Can Teach Kids Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

4 Life Skills Parents Can Teach Kids Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Huff Post  

ChristinaFelsing via Getty Images The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis. “It’s a terrible time that we are in,” psychologist Ron Stolberg, a professor at Alliant International University and author of “Teaching Kids to Think,” told HuffPost. “But it’s also an opportunity for kids to learn they have tremendous capacity to overcome adversity.” Here are four powerful life skills kids …

Keeping children safe from covid-19
4 years, 8 months ago

Keeping children safe from covid-19

Live Mint  

Although children around the world are so far less severely affected by covid-19, their lives are being upset by the virus in other ways. As parental patience wears thin and children are at their wits’ end, these four books, published speedily in the last few days and available to download for free, may keep children and their caregivers usefully occupied …

6 tips for parents to keep kids engaged at home during coronavirus lockdown 2.0
4 years, 8 months ago

6 tips for parents to keep kids engaged at home during coronavirus lockdown 2.0

India Today  

Welcome to a one of its kind summer vacation! Should they be just confined to the four walls of their bedrooms or become couch potatoes by watching TV shows on Netflix and chilling or worst follow a minute by minute time table to worsen things up? Worry not, we still have a lot of time in hand so let's get …

Coronavirus lockdown: 10 ways to keep children occupied during Covid-19
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus lockdown: 10 ways to keep children occupied during Covid-19

India Today  

Covid-19 is affecting the larger community and most importantly children. It has thrown all activity and routine for children out of gear and therefore it is a major task to keep them occupied with several activities through the day. Encourage creativity: Give children CDs, woollen threads, coloured papers, match sticks, glues, balloons, ice-cream sticks, etc and encourage them to make …

Curating news for children during pandemic
4 years, 9 months ago

Curating news for children during pandemic

The Hindu  

“I invite you to a picnic in our living room. Lockdown restrictions, academic schedules gone awry and, above all, the miserable feeling of being socially adrift… COVID-19 is upending the lives of children. When schools were shut abruptly in March, we, at The Hindu In School, received mails and calls from anxious parents and principals asking us what our “plans” …

5 ways to engage your kids at home effectively during the Covid-19 lockdown
4 years, 9 months ago

5 ways to engage your kids at home effectively during the Covid-19 lockdown

India Today  

We all have started to accept the fact that schools are going to be shut for quite some time because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Get their hands deep in experiments Give your kids some time to focus on fun activities like DIY science experiments, craft, drawing, watching documentaries and educational videos. Read: From preschool to higher secondary: Unicef’s tips on …

How to help kids cope with coronavirus stay-at-home orders
4 years, 9 months ago

How to help kids cope with coronavirus stay-at-home orders

LA Times  

With stay-at-home orders enacted in California and schools likely closed for the rest of the academic year, children can be especially vulnerable as the security of their routines is upended and they worry about the health of loved ones. I call it generation C, this generation that’s out there right now looking and feeling and wondering: Mom, Dad, whoever takes …

Tackling COVID-19 pandemic: Tips for parents working from home to keep their children engaged
4 years, 9 months ago

Tackling COVID-19 pandemic: Tips for parents working from home to keep their children engaged

The Hindu  

“There is a dark cloud over us,” says toy-innovator and science expert Arvind Gupta. The 67-year-old, who has made science fun for millions of children across the world through his ‘toys from trash’, says that there “is a silver lining” to the COVID-19 pandemic. “As people opt for working from home, this is a golden opportunity for families to bond; …

Coronavirus quarantine resources for parents with kids under 5
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus quarantine resources for parents with kids under 5

LA Times  

My second day of quarantine school started elbow-deep in pink muck, my conference call on mute and Slack vibrating urgently in the pocket of my coveralls as I squatted in front of a large plastic tub on my apartment’s sliver of a balcony, mixing water, corn starch and Crayola glitter paint. “It’s really daunting to all of a sudden have …

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