It is said that the hardest of times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. The year 2020 has been one of the toughest yet on multiple fronts. Natural disasters, war-like situations and that invisible virus that has brought the world to its knees.
When we look back, our single biggest takeaway from the COVID 19 quarantine would be how we lived through it – did we sit at home, stressed about everything or did we make the best out of the forced timeout by reinventing ourselves?
There was a time when we used to carry around bulky Kodak cameras, wait for the roll to get over so you could get it developed. Where are the Kodak cameras now? They have mostly been replaced by Smartphones. Anyone who adapted to the changing time, won.
First of all, you need to understand that this kind of complete change in the way we do things is not something new that is happening, it is just happening at a much faster rate. However, the underlying lesson is the same – change or perish.
This applies to our families as well. Have you noticed, our children are much more comfortable with staying indoors than we are? For them, virtual connections and using gadgets are a normal way of life. Understand this, they are unhappy with the situation, because they miss their schools and hanging out with friends, but they are largely okay. It is us who are stressed thinking about what to do with them, how they should be spending their time. And all our stress is reflected on to them, making for a pressure cooker situation at home.
Well, the good news is that this need not be the case. If you are willing to do two or three simple changes, it could not just make this quarantine better, but also help you build a better bond with your children?
That is what we teach in our module Parenting during Quarantine. The modules covered include
- How to adapt to new environment
- How to help your kids cope and not go mad
- How to build better bonds
- How to inculcate values in your children
- How to communicate so that you can get things done without conflict
