So, if you are already in isolation the most important thing is to save yourself from moaning about how unlucky you are, how terrible it is. All this is a waste of an invaluable personal resource. The situation has already taken place. Do not let anyone feel sorry for you. There are some acquaintances who, wishing to sympathize, are greatly weakened by phrases like “yes, I don’t envy you”, “I feel sorry for you”. Walk away from them! Your task is to withstand this situation! Besides, it is not that tragic. Well, a couple of weeks outside the usual rhythm, is this a catastrophe? Certainly not. This is just an unplanned event, also, for a specific period of length!
General tips to managing time and space
With something as unplanned as this you may be lost on how to go about it. You have to start somewhere. here are some general tips. Also, read on to on how to manage children these difficult times and for tips on the wellbeing of adults in your family.
1. Start with general cleaning
Firstly, it is hygienic. Secondly, work and a common goal can immediately unite the whole family. Thirdly, in a cleaned, tattered apartment it will be much easier to breathe and more pleasant to be. Remember, each has its place. Locked up is very important to have and respect personal space. Look around if there is a place for each of your households where he can be alone with himself. This place shouldn’t be the bed in which he sleeps: each of you needs to change the video sequence during the day. Pay attention to the usually unused spaces – from the cleared balcony or a nook in the corridor with an armchair and a reading lamp, excellent corners for privacy will come out.
2. Set teenagers free
Not in the sense that let them go outside. And psychologically. One way to optimize the space of an apartment is to divide the time spent in it into “shifts”. If there are night owls in your family, give them carte blanche. Allow adolescents whom you used to do your best to drive you to bed early, stay up late on the Internet and go to bed in the morning.
3. Hold planning meetings home
Forced constant stay with the family can be shocking. To prevent this from happening, exchange within your family your desires and plans. Think about how you can combine some of these points, for sure, the most diverse needs. Partner plans may help you shape your own. Lockdown can be a great time to exchange ideas and collaborate. Remember, in the end, that you love each other! See how you can be together, even when cursing or scandalous.
And even better, no matter how trite, hold a “family council” and develop a joint plan and rules for this time. You may like to discuss something together and find interesting directions of action or solutions. And it may become, in the future, you will want to apply this technique more often.
Even if your family did not have such a rule, try once a day to meet all together at one table. At dinner, tea, and just board games. The main thing is not on the TV, which will not allow you to fully communicate. When you are together, arrange your life together so that there is time to leave each other alone – and time to be together, hold on to each other.
4. Finish things up
Surely a whole list of household chores has already accumulated, to finish which hands have not reached for a long time. Well, your finest hour has come. Nail shelves, sew torn loops to jackets, disassemble the family photo archive – now you have time for all this. This is creativity, and some physical exercises, and undoubted benefits for the economy. Make a large list and try to evenly distribute all the cases. And yes, everything that you were going to read and see. Surely you have a list of books that you have put aside until better times, now they have arrived. List of TV shows worth watching. List of this year’s Academy Award-winning films. Maybe you were going to show your children your favorite movies. Or, vice versa, watch their favorite cartoon together. Now you have plenty of time for all this.
5. Don’t let children fall out of rhythm
Everything is simple with children. They have the mainline of life, which is study. Therefore, most of the time will be spent studying the curriculum. What is important to remember here? Children need to be set to “not fall out” of rhythm. The adult’s task, if suddenly the child will not go to school, find out what questions and topics in subjects need to be mastered during this time. Help the child make and master this plan.
5 golden rules to help children survive lockdown
1. Lockdown is not a reason for social isolation
Long live Skype and other video messengers. Arrange space for communication with relatives and friends – find a convenient place for a laptop, arrange yourself so that everyone who wants to talk will be captured by the camera. Now you can arrange an online tea party with friends with whom you will see in real life only after 14 days
2. Make yourself a place to “freak out.”
Locked-up children can drive their parents crazy. Largely, because it is difficult for them to bear the forced lack of physical activity. Try to give a place for children where they can come off daily – jump, screech at least a little. It is advisable that irritable households who can’t tolerate loud noise could hide away from this place. Organize active games for children – blind man’s hide and seek. Do morning exercises together.
3. Running from physical inactivity
Unlike children, adults do not have such a need for physical activity, however, you do not need to constantly sit still. Excessive exercise also leads to impaired sleep and digestion. Find a balance. At least half an hour a day, give physical education (on the Internet there are a lot of sets of exercises – from yoga to judo). Do not forget to ventilate the room well before exercise.
4. Recount the budget
Another of the things that always does not reach the hands: the calculation of the family budget. Download the necessary programs, try to calculate your spending over the past six months – and optimize them for the future.
5. Take care of yourself and with each other
Take care of your well-being – lie in the bath, get enough sleep, do what you like, allow yourself some nice little things. In case of a choice – to forbid something to the child or to allow – it is better to allow it. Do not support minor quarrels. Listen to soft relaxing music, watch good, optimistic films.
Walking with children during such times is not only desirable. Because the lack of fresh air can cause more serious illnesses than Coronavirus. schools and children may not resume way beyond the lockdown is lifted. Till lockdown is in force, you must be at home for your own and for other’s safety. Once the authorities lift the lockdown you will be able to take children for a walk or a stroll. but the coronavirus crisis will still not be over by then. Adhering to several conditions, you can safely take children and walk with them even during these difficult periods.
Here’s what you need to pay attention to:
- During the walk you do not contact other people;
- Children communicate in small groups (up to 5 people) under the supervision of adults who adhere to the distance;
- You have the opportunity to leave your own home without contacting other people and not “licking” doors, handrails, buttons, etc. on the way;
- You know how to open doors correctly, how to press the elevator buttons, you have a sanitizer with you and you know how to use it, you are ready, in the end, to walk along the stairs, avoiding the elevator car, which is not aired;
- The forest and the park – although this is further, much better than a bench near the house.
Adults can cooperate so that one mother can gain strength and sleep, while the other walks with two children at once.
5 Wellbeing tips for adults survive lockdown
1. Eat healthy
As for nutrition, the basic rule is fewer fast carbohydrates, more vegetables, and greens, enough protein. Protein helps produce antibodies to the infection.
During Lockdown, it is most convenient to stock up products with a long shelf life. For example, cereals, pasta, stew, vegetables, herbs, dairy products. In particular, sour milk – to improve digestion.
Also, if you are healthy, you can arrange a home workout. To make up for the lack of fresh air – often open windows, sit on the balcony. The main thing is not to get too cold.
Earlier, nutritionist Giuseppe Russolillo said which products will help the immune system resist Coronavirus. According to him, it is important to add fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meat, fish, eggs, and dairy products to the diet. According to experts, the products will not prevent Coronavirus infection and will not heal a person. However, some of them will increase immunity and prepare it to resist infection.
Nutritionist Alma Palau clarified that “an adequate diet is necessary to strengthen the body’s natural defenses.” Certain foods will improve the response to pathogens that cause infections.
Academy President Giuseppe Russolillo explained that it is necessary to balance and diversify the diet. According to him, it is important to add fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meat, fish, eggs, and dairy products to the diet.
The expert advises paying attention to omega-3 fatty acids in fish, nuts, and olive oil because they will help to cope with inflammation and strengthen immunity.
2. Drink plenty of water
Doctors advise drinking boiled water every twenty minutes, to prevent the virus. Also do not forget to drink a glass of water on an empty stomach, so you eat less food, and water is the metabolism in the body.
3. Do not miss morning and evening exercises
In the first half-hour after waking up, do not be lazy and do a small set of exercises. Mash all muscle groups, from the cervical to the ankle. If your country’s public health policy regarding lockdown needs you to stay at home, please strictly follow it. You can do freehand exercise, mat exercises, yoga, skipping or treadmill or at home. Your children can also participate making it more fun and a wonderful bonding opportunity.
Every country is adopting different policies regarding rules about the lockdown. You must follow the policy adopted by your country and local health authorities. If your country/local policy allows it, you do need to sit at home all the time in lockdown. Fifteen, twenty minutes to walk in the park (which is not crowded) will not make you infected. The main thing is to observe precautions when leaving the house: do not touch surfaces, do not touch your face with your hands, wear masks, carry antiseptics with you and maintain social distance. Take care and be careful!
4. Be sure to have breakfast
A full breakfast helps maintain healthy blood sugar levels, and you will not have a bite to eat in the morning, and you will have lunch normally. The main thing is that you eat the right foods!
5. Control your appetite
The main thing to eat during meals! That is, according to the schedule: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also, many nutritionists advise not to overeat, and do not to eat at night. You can control your appetite if you stick to your regimen. Also, ask yourself more often if you want to eat junk food. Do I need this? I’m not hungry, why should I eat this? Doctors note that in this way a person kills the desire to use an unnecessary thing, and this system works.
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