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How to Support a Child Who Spends a Lot of Time at Home: 4 Tips for Parents
30.01.2023 17:00
Updated: 13.04.2023 17:48
Children love to skip school, stay home to rest a little, and not study. But even they can get bored with breaks in their studies. This happens when such breaks drag on, lasting several months, for example, due to illness.
Staying at home for a long time is a challenge for an adult who can still come up with many activities for himself. It is much more difficult for a child: he is not yet all right with organizing his time, so he cannot do without help from others.
The only people who can help a child cope with the longing for being at home are his parents. But often they don’t know what to do.
In order not to get confused and provide moral support correctly, you can use some recommendations.
Coping with anxiety
Being isolated from the rest of the world, it is difficult not to panic about the uncertainty in the air about what is happening outside the apartment. Often, parents themselves fuel this anxiety by talking about how terrible everything is.
Adults, if forced to stay at home with a child for a long time, should not in any way aggravate the situation. It is important to talk about what is good, what can be happy about. There is no need to hide anything, because children feel everything well.
The child's questions should be answered honestly, but not dramatized. At the end of the conversation, it is worth noting that everything will get better, will fall into place. You can ask the child what could calm him down.
Strengthening the connection
You can use the time spent only in the circle of your family to benefit your relationships. When everyone has to run errands, then, of course, there may not be time left for communication.
When you have many hours to talk and play, you should definitely take advantage of it. In addition to playing together, you can organize watching movies and reading books. All this will help you find common interests and become closer to each other.
Maintaining a daily routine
One of the reasons why a child may suffer while at home is that everything around them becomes unusual. For example, a measuredness in actions begins to appear, the need to be mobilized and active disappears. All this leads to laziness, apathy, and poor health. Along with all of the above, anxiety often increases.
To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to introduce mandatory adherence to the daily routine. You can allocate more time for rest, but it should be strictly limited.
Proper nutrition
Good health is impossible without a balanced diet. That is why you should not constantly spoil your child with tasty things, for example, give him cakes, pies. It is better to replace all this with salads and fruits.
To arouse your child’s interest in healthy food, you need to constantly experiment and prepare new dishes.
It is necessary to show by your own example how to get the most out of being at home. Adults themselves should follow the daily routine, eat right. Then the child will begin to follow them, to do what is necessary for his development.
