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5 Ways Your Kids Can Learn More Effectively During Quarantine Isolation

Ways to Help Your Kids Learn More Effectively During Quarantine Isolation

By Ellen RoycePublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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Description: Quarantine isolation presents a challenging moment for parents who want to help their kids learn at home. These tips are worth considering and can help your kids learn more effectively during quarantine isolation.

We’ve all seen how the Coronavirus pandemic has affected people globally and impacted their daily lives. To begin with, schools have been temporarily closed during this time to protect school-going children. But even as we hope to get through this challenging time, the question we’re asking ourselves is, can kids learn during this lockdown period? While there is a feeling of confusion, the lessons learned during the COVID-19 lockdowns mean you should work towards making the most of this time at home with the kids. Besides embracing the online experience that lets you enjoy your favorite online games, such as Lord of Ocean, there’s also a need to find ways to ensure your kids learn during this period. Here are some of the ways we feel will help your kids learn more effectively at home.

Encourage the Adoption of New Hobbies

Quarantine isolation during these pandemic times can take a toll on your mental health, and your kids are no exception. Complaints of boredom and mental fatigue are too common, explaining the need to find something meaningful that can keep you and your kids busy. This is also the time you need to consider helping your kids learn something new. Perhaps learning a new hobby during this quarantine time will help avoid boredom and focus on something meaningful.

Besides your kids being able to learn something, a new hobby will help them reduce the unavoidable stress affecting many people during this challenging time. By learning a new hobby, they become creative enough to tap into their inner passions during these unexciting times. Fun activities such as drawing or painting are creative outlets that help nurture kid’s talents during this quarantine isolation.

Create A Daily Learning Routine Together

When you develop a framework on what to learn during the lockdown, there's no doubt you'll succeed in helping your kids learn effectively during this challenging period. As a parent, a workable routine may sometimes be hard to implement if you have other responsibilities at home. But it remains the best approach to help your kids learn something during coronavirus lockdown.

Begin with writing down all the things they'll be learning each day and help them adhere to them. When developing this routine, bear in mind your kids need some flexibility if you want them to learn effectively during this period of hard lockdowns. Therefore, if you see them agitated whenever you introduce a new activity to their learning routine, switch to another option.

Besides Learning, Have Some Play Time

You need to find some playtime once you’ve broken down the time for activities to learn during the quarantine period. Schedule enough playtime for your kids, and you'll find it easy to fill the rest of their day with meaningful activities.

Like any other activity, playtime is crucial for your kids during quarantine isolation, and it will make the learning process more effective. Playtime enhances their imagination and the ability to get more creative whenever they learn something new. Therefore, allow them the independence to play unsupervised and limit your involvement and interferences during their game time.

Protect them from Learning Unsuitable Content

It’s worth noting that your kids have endless opportunities during lockdown to access and learn from all sorts of content on digital platforms. While online platforms have helped children learn a lot during the lockdown, you should develop a keen eye on what type of content they access and learn from.

You need to teach them how to learn safely using digital platforms during COVID-19. It will also help if you establish rules on when to use the internet for learning and how to help them stay safe online during the lockdown. When you feel it hard to monitor what they are learning from, do not hesitate to implement parental controls.

Help them Stay in Touch with their Peers and School

Helping your kids keep in touch with their peers during this lockdown period can help them develop a good attitude towards learning effectively. The good news is there’s technology to make all this possible. You can help them get in touch and learn about each other’s progress to ease the lockdown pressure. You can as well coordinate with parents of their peers and agree if they can learn together.

Besides, keeping in touch with their teachers will also help you get more guidance on how you can help them learn effectively during these lockdown times. Their teacher is also better placed to advise you on the best approaches for homeschooling during quarantine isolation.

Final Thought

Ensuring your kids learn effectively during this quarantine isolation is perhaps the most important thing to every parent. While the kids will want to learn many things independently, these are ways to engage and help them learn more efficiently during this lockdown period. Don’t hesitate to turn your home into a school and help them learn something new each day.

Creating a learning atmosphere for your children during this lockdown period can be pretty challenging. What are some of your suggestions for the best approaches to help kids learn during this coronavirus pandemic? Let us know in the comments below.

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