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3 smart ways to use screen time
Participate With The Kids
While they are engaged in the media, stay with your kids(as much as possible), guide them, help them understand and form connections. Kids would have plenty of questions and providing them timely answers with examples makes the whole exercise fruitful and strengthens your bond with them.
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The Kids Are All Right
Due to the lockdown, most day-care centres, workplaces and schools are now closed. This has parents grappling with kids using technology at home, consuming media all day.
A few tips that can help make the most of the screen time for kids who are now nested at home:
- Choose high-quality Educational Media.
- Participate in the media.
- Aim for creation, not consumption.
Don't Hand Over The Remote
Don’t just hand over the remote to the kids. Help them choose the right content that is educational, informative, and interesting enough for them to engage in for hours. There are various learning apps that can help them learn subjects, like Sesame Street, Bedtime Math and many others. Resources like Common Sense Media have plenty of content and activities related to healthy living, eating, and scientific fun facts. It helps to gauge your kids interest first and then choose the right media.
Participate With The Kids
While they are engaged in the media, stay with your kids(as much as possible), guide them, help them understand and form connections. Kids would have plenty of questions and providing them timely answers with examples makes the whole exercise fruitful and strengthens your bond with them.
Create, Not Consume
Instead of merely consuming media, make your kids participate and interact with it, displaying their creativity. There are apps that let them paint, write their own songs, and play interactive educational games.
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Keep a sense of normalcy
Even though children are no longer following their usual school day routines, you can establish and follow a new routine at home.
Decide together as a family the best way that you and the kids c...
Be careful about news consumption
Children should watch or listen to the news with their parents but only in moderation. Parents should immediately address any questions or concerns their kids may have in a developmentally appropriate manner.
Keep in mind that if you don’t answer your child’s questions, they may search for other unreliable sources on the internet.
Acknowledge your own anxiety
Children learn anxious behaviors from their parents. Taking the time to address your own worries and decrease your anxiety will benefit the whole family.
To reduce anxiety, practice deep breathing, meditation, and yoga or other grounding techniques.
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Just Show Up
If one adult in a child's life constantly shows up for them, they turn out better in:
- Happiness Quotient
- Academic Success
- Leadership ...
The Four S's
Showing up for your child is easy to do. A child should be made to feel Safe, Seen, Soothed and Secure.
When we show up and give our children an opportunity to be seen, honestly and directly, then we act as a living mirror for them to see themselves.
Don't Deny Their Feelings
While we reassure our kids telling them what they are feeling is not going to be a problem, and they shouldn't cry or worry, we are ignoring their feelings.
Acknowledging what they feel is as important as correcting their course.
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Taking cues from you
When children witness a parent in a state of anxiety, they can become unsettled, because they take information about how to interpret situations from the parent.
If you notice your child sho...
Learn stress management techniques
A big part of treatment for children with anxiety is to teach parents stress tolerance.
A mental health professional can help you work through methods of stress management for your specific needs.
Model stress tolerance
You might learn strategies in therapy that you can impart to your child when she is feeling anxious.
Try to maintain a calm, neutral demeanor in front of your child, even if you are still trying to manage your anxiety. Children are quick to read facial expressions.
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