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How happiness curriculum can help kids till schools reopen amidst covid-19 pandemic

How happiness curriculum can help kids till schools reopen amidst covid-19 pandemic

Do you think our children have endured an immense loss of physical and mental activity during this extended lockdown?

Unfortunately, the answer is TRUE
Here's how

Based on a survey in India, 27% of the parents have said that their children are not getting their daily routine of physical activity (PA) in the form of playing outdoor and indoor games which is a prominent part of NPS Uttarahalli's extracurricular activities.

According to a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, published in June, due to lockdown, loneliness has led to high rates of depression and anxiety in children. They state "A pandemic and lockdown are not in our mental schema, our bodies are finding ways to cope up with it. Children are experiencing sleep disturbances because of an increase in anxiety and frustration". This is deteriorating the mental status of the children.

What is Recommended?

What is Recommended?

WHO has made an immense study on the effects of physical activity on young populations signifying that “All children and adolescents should do at least 60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous-intensity physical activity.” Physical activity significantly increases energy and also promotes the psycho-motor development of the children. Adding to this a constant engagement with kids helps reduce stress and anxiety levels.

What is the challenge in implementing these recommendations?

"Kids won't listen to us"

What is the challenge in implementing these recommendations?

If you observe, We hate doing activities even though we are rewarded if we don't enjoy doing them. It's quite simple, you avoid activities you don't enjoy, but you won't raise a single word when you are happy doing the same activity.

Activity + Happy and Satisfaction = Motivation

Activity + Stress and Pressure = Avoidance

Based on this principle, we have framed a Happiness Curriculum with interesting activities to keep your children happy and healthy till the schools reopen in Bangalore.

Let's get started this is how a typical Happy day looks like

Day Outline

Routine

Impact

Resources

Early Morning

Start your happy day with your child by practicing yoga/exercise/dance
  • Overall fitness
  • Discipline mentally
  • Boundless energy with Lower stress levels

The YouTube account Cosmic Kids Yoga has all kinds of yoga-for-kids videos. It's not just for kids, either; you can all do yoga together as a family!

Morning

Make your kid your Sous-chef and guide them to create a menu for three meals and a snack (Meal Planning) Classify the meals based on proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and vitamins.
  • Get creative
  • Learn practical science lessons like cooking, steaming, boiling, etc...
  • Understand the importance of micronutrients like proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, etc...

Food items at home You can follow few recipes kidspot.com.au/kitchen/

Mid-Morning

Time for Activity + Joy and Satisfaction = Motivation

  • Books are your best friends. Ask your kid to say or enact a story or teach a poem.
  • Try to help them get that story onto paper
  • Listen to stories or audiobooks
  • Keep them busy
  • Learn something new and extraordinary
  • The habit of reading a book
  • Gaining Vocabulary
  • Improve Creative writing and communication skills.

Storybooks, audiobooks, You can follow this page for short stories, poems, writing skills, etc... learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org

Afternoon

Let, "ANYTHING" become ANY ONE THING

  • Notice what activities they hate to stop doing, support that and nurture your child's passion and interests such as drawing, craft, music, dance, Gaming, painting, sports, etc...
  • Make it a daily routine.
  • Passion is the greatest gift of self-discovery
  • Happiness and stress-less
  • No one can stop their dream
  • Cognitive development
  • Narrow downs future career
  • Think outside the box
  • Creative
  • Noticing the passion and supporting them is the best resource.
  • Freedom to pave their road to happiness with conventional guidance

Evening

A refreshing evening with scientific Pranayama (Meditation), prayer, and chanting for about 30 minutes
  • Bringing harmony in your body and mind
  • Increases concentration
  • Releases the stress of your body
  • Keep away various mental diseases
  • Time is the resource for meditation.
  • Give peaceful time and live every minute in the process of breathing.

Night

Complete your day with your family, but not with Television while having delicious dinner (before 8:00 P.M)
  • Better Sleep and digestion
  • Improves energy levels
  • Weight Loss
  • Improve Heart health
  • Say NO to television or electronic devices
  • Share time and dinner with family

We understand It's tough as working parents to completely engage with our kids especially with our busy work from home schedules, but it's equally important to spend quality time with our little family members. The busier you keep them in learning, the easier it is going to be on you. The easy trick to learn anything is to enjoy the process of learning and build curiosity to motivate them.

What is the challenge in implementing these recommendations?

Let's keep our kids Happy and Motivated during these tough times.