Parenting is challenging and parenting in a pandemic is more challenging when parents have to face a lot of ups and downs during Covid 19.
Schools are locked, kids are at home, most working women (even men) have lost their jobs during the pandemic. This was a big trauma that the whole world faced (still now) and this gave more challenges for mothers to carry their children and buck up their spouse at the same time.
Kids Academic pressure
This is still a big issue. Due to lockdown, online classes were at their peak. Mothers had to manage kids' academics, family, house chores and the working women had to face the double. They had to carry their job and family both.
Due to double stress, family, and academics, mothers, in general, have a lot more challenges than before. They have to help kids to complete their kids' school work. Helping in school online classes, completing their tasks on time was another challenge.
Quick Fix:
- Ask kids to make a timetable of their day, assist them to accomplish their tasks.
- Praise them when they accomplish their work. This boosts their performance.
Kids Tantrum
As kids are at home, they get annoyed because of no social interaction, no school fellows. So they show tantrums.
This is obvious because kids love to play with peer one, they share their feelings, joys, and sadness. When parents are busy with their work and cannot give time to kids, the kids show tantrums.
- Take time from your busy schedules. Spend this time with your kids. This should be a daily practice and this bonding with your kids helps in their grooming too.
- Place extra toys, sand, play dough, color, books, or any other things handy. Give them to your kids before they show tantrums.
- Take them to a nearby park if possible daily or biweekly.
Family and societal pressure:
Society exerts a lot more pressure on women to be proactive in every domain of life. They want to be educated or working women to be active in child health, education, finance, caregiving, household activities, chores, etc.
They don't want men to participate in such a curriculum of child grooming. This raises mental health issues among women. They seem active, but they cannot be active in all such aspects of child grooming.
These pressures along with pandemic arousal become more challenging for women, in general, to cope-up.
Quick Fix:
- Take time for yourself. Self-care is crucial even if it is ten to twenty minutes a day.
- Self-meditation, yoga, exercise, or even a hobby bring calm to your busy life. Keep your children busy with you too.
No social get together:
This was quite impossible early in the pandemic when the whole world was in lockdown. Later it came to be somehow normal but yet precautions from all sides were there.
As the kids were at home, locked, only online classes, no social get-together, this frustrated children a lot, and they showed quite more tantrums than before. This was and somehow still is a challenging situation for parents to overcome such scenery at home.
Quick Fix:
- Have indoor games for kids, encourage some good hobbies, and have a dedicated timetable.
- Yoga, exercise, swimming, walking, and jogging are good health, and proven practices to be done with kids.
- Social media is a good alternative too but use it positively and precisely.
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