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How Old Parents Keep the Kids Engaged in Activities?
Modern parents need to inspire traditional parents for better and healthy growth of their children. In past. Children were more active, smart, physically, and mentally fit. This is the reason modern parents should copy traditional parents. Modern parents should encourage imaginative and creative plays of tradition.
The games that keep children occupied and provide sense of coordination and responsibility should be the activities children should be engaged in.
How to encourage child for outdoor games?
All of us prefer to explore or to do new things. In the same way, children also love it to try something new. You need to make sure the activities you are designing must be interesting and fascinating since why a child would be attracted to a boring game. It must be pleasing.
You can ask your child what’s their favorite game is and then buy him/her the equipment and organize a specific environment. Remember, you can offer choices but don’t order.
Play with them: Kids copy action. Team up with you partner and play Infront of your child and thus participate in playing with your child, they will feel safe more special this family environment will boost their confidence. Their bond becomes stronger.
Acknowledgment: kids love to be appreciated. When they are praised, they feel happy and feeling fulfilment makes them forget the instant entertainment which mobile phones provide.
Is coloring or drawing activities help in it?
For sure, coloring and drawing activities help a child to reduce mobile addiction and give them a chance to reflect on yourself. That’s how a child comes to know about himself, his likeness and choices. When a child is acquired to draw or color something, They start considering different options or colours available to them. This activity gives them the chance to be decisive and make decisions for themselves.
This planning is directed on page in the form of drawing or sketches, which is the result of brains activity. When we make fantasy or scenarios in our mind urges our brain to work, think and evaluate. In biological terms we call it the result of hormonal response which is secreted due to stimulation of frontal lobe of brain. Coloring and drawing prove a smoothing activity. It lessens the stress and anxiety which may cause by instant gratification due to mobile phones.
Successful Parents What they did?
Although it seems really challenging but somehow there are parents who successfully reduced their child’s screen-time not by creating tough or rigid rules or by being harsh to their kids but simply by forming specific boundaries. They fixed the time for using screens like an hour in the evening or not using mobile phones before bed at all.
By following such commands, children process the concept of decisions and how to obey or respect them. Parents also created screen free zones in their home where children cannot use phones at all or screen free day: the day nobody will use phone at home. This also limited the screen time of children.
Final Words
Parents found new and interesting alternatives to entangle their child in the fun activities or outdoor games to reduce the time they will spend on gadgets. Parents became role models for their children; they copy whatever their parents do or say. They try to do exactly same.
When they see their parents playing and spending time with them instead of using smart phones, they are attracted to their family more than any inhumane gadget. Thus, to sustain the fun element parents created fun activities so that the child may not get bored with them.