Tips for the Parents during Lockdown Days

Challenges are Welcome!!

Due to challenging phase, (lockdown days), there is increased anxiety levels and lack of awareness for all the parents on how to spend quality time with the young children & obviously how to keep them actively engaged is a big question mark for all of us ?? Hence, we at LittleVille, bringing a positive awareness & value-added information for the young parents.

Please read & practice the below points with your children.

Nutrition

Nutrition plays an important role in the growth & development of the child. Add variety to your child’s diet, Add natural colours to the food, cook it aromatically, consider portion size while feeding the child, Timely food is necessary, include the food pyramid chart while cooking, soft cooked food, will be preferred by the little children.

Health Care

Health is wealth, children are sensitive to infections too early since their immune system is on developing stage, health care plays a prominent role. Parents at home encourage the children to wash hands before and after the meal, after playing with toys, after using washrooms, bathing every day, cutting the nails, changing dress when required and so on…

Rest & Exercise

Let your child sleep adequately which will boost the child’s development and engage the child with morning & evening warm-up activities. Warm-up activities like swaying hands and legs, bending, stretching hands and legs etc.

Indoor Quality Time

Spending indoor quality time is quite challenging within four walls. Hence try these activities at home & avoid monotonous activities. Quality time also improves parent-child relationship.

Activities like: Involve in Kitchen activities (Counting, arranging, cutting and so on), Rhyme time: Play rhymes at home & Teach new rhymes, snakes and ladder, glass arranging, etc…

Build Routine

Set time to your daily tasks: Early bedtime, morning wake up time, toilet training time if required, food time, Playtime, naptime and so on. which will increase the independence of the child.

Gadget Time

With Increasing technology and new-age parenting styles, set a time for the Gadgets which will help the child to be emotionally and socially well behaved. Give guidelines on sitting position and what to watch, which would definitely include age appropriateness.

Art & Craft

Creativity has no limit. Encourage your child to do colouring, pasting, painting, Art on the wall, soft cotton toys, kite making and flying at your own terrace, collage, arrange the dining table, assist to decorate the rooms, etc.…

Encourage New Hobbies

Teach and include new hobbies at home, Example: Watering plants, handwriting, collection of Toys and rearranging, making handmade toys, etc.

Focus on Overall Development

Preschool’s milestones completion depends on the development of the child, hence, allow the child to explore the best possibilities for indoor activities which will enhance their psychomotor, personality, cognition, language and creativity.

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