How to cope with your children during pandemic
Puti Manira
This Covid-19 pandemic made us do activities at home especially working and studying. Some parents find it difficult to accompany their children when they are having school from home. Why? Because parents are still parents, we are not our children’s teacher. Children think they are having holiday because they are at home especially for lower kids in elementary school.
Try to wake up in the morning, have a bath and get ready like usual when they are going to the school. Give option tasks from the teacher to our children, which one they want to do first. Sometimes, parents are rushing by deadline that their kids should report the task to the teacher but in the house, children act differently.
School from home does not always mean digital using mobile phone, laptop, and virtual video platform. We can use the old way to learn with recycled stuff that we can find at home. We can make toys or art crafts from cardboard.
Children and parents make a commitment to do school tasks from home. It is not easy, some parents cannot explain correctly with the school subject like math, the hardest subject if they can say laughly. Some kids can learn by themselves with provided material given by the teacher, like video, slides, or finding it by web search engine.
The other problem is the Exam which is cancelled due to this pandemic, most children are disappointed because they were studying hard before and now the exam is cancelled. They said it was just a waste of their time.
This is the new beginning, the world of the whole country is not ready facing this pandemic. New normal of working and studying from home with digital access is the new way and everybody should adjust to survive.
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