With the schools closed, a sound plan to keep the children engaged indoors is the need of the hour. But how can you achieve this work-life balance, without affecting your work priorities or compromising on your child’s development?
By now, you may be running out of ideas of how to keep your children happily occupied during work hours.
In millions of homes across the globe this very minute, parents are juggling like never before as they struggle to teach their children while earning a living during the corona virus lock down.
Below are some practical tips – from giving your children time to transition to homeschooling, to creative ideas – for navigating staying at home together.
Carve out family time
In the evening, we have family time. So from 7.30 p.m. on wards, everyone’s devices go away, and we have a very fiery game of UNO or watch something appropriate on Netflix. Every household with children can now guarantee there’s going to be family time.
Let them chat to friends
It’s really important for the children to communicate with their friends. Parents can set up Zoom talks with their children’s friends. Not every day, but during the week, there should be some way they’re connected with somebody else that’s not you, and not another adult.
Share the responsibility
We need to jointly plan and give them that sense of responsibility. It’s quite powerful for them to take control of what they’d like to do. And if that’s being in their room drawing, then give them that time, make them exhausted from doing that, because they will get bored very soon. And when they want to do other things, that’s where, as a parent, you’ve already got all these resources and ideas ready to go.
Download our app from play store and get updates everyday for FREE. Press the button below.
![](https://malimwengu.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/app-download-google-play.jpg")
