Parenting in Quarantine

   Parenting is a tedious task,  that too parenting in quarantine is undoubtedly a herculean task. When I ponder, why is it so, the main reason is we are doing helicopter parenting.  (i.e) In the name of being careful and conscious,  we are always chasing our kids to do this and that. We are not letting them to do things on their own. We are living their lives too. Khaled Hosseini  says, " Children are not your colouring book, to fill with your favourite colours". Let them be on their own. 

  When we discuss these troubles with our elderly people,  such as mother or mother- in - law, we can hear the response like " we don't brought up kids like you. They grew themselves.  We just feed and look after them, now and then". 

   But the present scenario is not the same. We have much more responsibility in bringing our kids. We should monitor their healthy hygienic habits, food style, education,  peer group relationship, enhancing their skills and so on.

   And ultimately the extreme pressure is to cut down or reduce the screen time. It may be with mobile phones, tv, tab, gadgets or whatever it may be. Thus as a small contribution from my part, I thought of sharing some kids friendly activities here. It may help the kids to reduce their screen time as well as the parents to get some " Me " time, without listening to "Mommy,  I want snacks", " Mommy, I need to go washroom ", " Mommy,  I want to watch cartoons ". Hence some activity ideas will be  continued in the next blogs.

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