Childcare

Here is how you can take care of your kids during the corona pandemic:

  1. Follow the rule of social distancing: Your children and baby must be kept away from other people during pandemic times. It is recommended that your kids remain inside your home, but they can also go outside for a little bit of playtime or a walk. Even though they still can go outside and enjoy the outside world, it is important to keep your kids away from your friends and neighbors. They should at least be kept 6 feet apart from people. If possible, you should not take your kids to a store along with you so that they are kept safe and sound.
  1. Teach kids the proper way of handwashing: As a parent, it is a responsibility for you to teach your kids how to properly wash their hands with some soap and water in a maximum of 20 seconds. While washing hands, you and your kids can sing twinkle, twinkle little star, or the ABCs. Washing of hands should be done frequently and always right before you eat. Using a hand sanitizer is also not harmful to a kid or baby to use, but you must supervise them when using a hand sanitizer, it will be completely absorbed, and it will not be licked off of their hands after applied.
  1. Support their emotional well- being: During the corona pandemic, how exactly can parents handle the entire stress of going under social distancing with our kids? It is a very normal thing to be a social being. I encourage you to find different types of ways on how you will be able to keep the connection with family members and friends digitally like FaceTime, videos, texts, phone calls, and others. Even during the pandemic, we still need our daily support from people, laughter, and smile works wonders for a person’s mental health. If you recently just became a parent, support from family members and friends are especially needed. Keep in mind that emotional connections are very important. 

That’s it about childcare! Let us move on to some fun activities that you and your child can play together.

Activities 

Here are some fun activities for you:

  1. Make a blanket fort or tent: How can you be able to build an imaginary world without some special tools or materials? Gather every single sheet and blanket that you have inside of your home and start building your very own blanket fort. You will see that kids will have plenty of hours having fun in developing different types of storylines and taking out energy into the fun activity. For the experience to be more fun, you can build some sort of movie blanket tent altogether.
  2. Create and print out clothes with the use of your kid’s drawings: Every single child loves to paint, draw, and just simply express their creativity in different kinds of ways. It is very sad to see very meaningful artworks piled up inside a drawer or just simply get lost. Making clothes out of a kid’s artwork will turn them into very beautiful and meaningful souvenirs that can last for an eternity.
  1. Make some felt accessories: Felt is a type of crafting very handy material; it is like construction paper and fabric put into one. They are very easy to cut, glue, and sew, and even staple for a different activity. Felt crafts are very easy and also fun for your kids, and you can also make some accessories together with them.

What activity do you like to do the most with your kids? Don’t be shy and write them down in the comment section!