After the completion of the annual examinations, all children have entered vacation mode which they call ‘vacay’ in urban slang! A big question for many children and their parents is “how to spend the time for the next one and half months to two months”. Be it rural or urban areas, one of the common problems that we can see is “addiction to mobile”. After the pandemic, most of the students have gotten addicted to electronic gadgets. Now, handling that itself has become a big issue for most of the parents. How can the summer vacation be utilised in the best way?
Have restricted time schedule for electronic gadgets:
This is something very important because electronic gadgets impact both body and mind in a negative way! It is important to have restricted use so that it doesn’t become too much as there is a tendency among children to engage with the gadgets for the whole day.
Make children play outdoors:
Physical activities are very important for holistic development of the children. Therefore, at least two hours have to be spent in the play area. If required, along with the children, parents can also join so that a greater bonding is built between children and the parents as well through the games.
Develop hobbies:
Hobbies are something that help in evolving the personalities of children. Be it painting, singing, dancing or gardening or anything! Hobbies provide a different perspective to life and also it can make children creative. Hobbies also help the children to have certain areas that can cheer them up and break the monotony during the academic studies.
Read books:
Reading is one of the important skills that the present generation is missing out on! Reading is something that helps in evolving one’s cognitive and imaginative abilities.
Social skills:
It is important that children develop social skills like interacting with others, mingling with others, communication and so on which play an important role in creating opportunities for themselves.
Life skills:
Generally every parent thinks that their children should not go through the difficulties that they went through in their childhood. Due to this, they don’t give any work to their children. However, entrusting the household chores is always a good idea so that children learn life skills during their holidays. Right from sweeping, dusting, cleaning, washing the vessels to cooking and so on should be taught to the children so that they would be self dependent when they grow up.
Mental mathematics:
Mental mathematics is something that I strongly suggest to every child because it helps in sharpening the brain of the child. Every problem of mental mathematics will energise the neural pathways and analytical abilities of the children.
Hope these tips would be useful in making the holidays more productive and useful for the children as well as for the parents. By following these, we can also ensure that the children are upgrading themselves in the holidays in those areas which are generally neglected otherwise.