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Children And Play In The Time Of Lockdown
Divya Badami Rao 10 Mins Read During these times of uncertainty, it’s important to encourage and support your child’s play. Here are 10 ways to provide open-ended and inviting play environments for your child during the lockdown.
COVID-19 is currently dictating all aspects of our lives. Due to the lockdown, parents are busier than usual, working from home, doing the housework, and balancing the expectations of home-schooling. One helpful way parents can manage their own stress and their children’s is simply to let children play more. With all the uncertainty surrounding us, both parents and children could benefit through playtime. Playing makes the day better, and provides invaluable stress relief without the suffocating expectation of externally imposed ideas of productivity.Play and boredomGiven their current restricted mobility, children will most likely feel energetic or bored in waves. When boredom hits, they find things to do, and when they rest, boredom hits and the cycle repeats itself. While this is true in the span of a single day, in my experience so far, this also applies to a series of days. Left to their own devices, children are largely...
