Tips to Help Your Children Get Through Quarantine

For children, this is a completely new and strange situation that can come to make them feel anxious and afraid… Especially if they don’t really understand what’s going on or if they don’t get the emotional support they need from their families. They may feel confused, overwhelmed, bored, or overloaded by the fact that they can’t leave home.

Fortunately, there are some measures we can put into practice during quarantine to help the days be more enjoyable for our little ones.

Tips for helping your children get through quarantine

1. Tend to personal hygiene

Since we can’t leave home, it’s very tempting to stay in our pajamas all day and neglect certain aspects of basic hygiene. However, these small actions have a major impact on our emotional well-being. Therefore, each morning after breakfast, encourage your kids to brush their teeth, comb their hair, and get dressed in everyday clothing.

Of course, they don’t need to get dressed up or put on school uniforms or anything like that. Comfortable clothes are fine, just make sure they change their clothes each day.

In the same way, it’s important for them to keep up the habit of making their beds and tidying up their rooms on a daily basis. A clean and orderly environment will help them maintain a calm state of mind and better concentration.

In the same way, even though you don’t go out, it’s important for kids to shower and wash their hair just as often as usual. Neglecting our bodies and our environment will cause internal discomfort sooner or later.

It’s also important to care for our little ones’ mental hygiene. Make sure the coronavirus isn’t the only thing you talk about around the house. And, when you do talk about it, try to keep a positive perspective. Filling your children with fear will only be counterproductive.

2. Balanced routines to help children get through quarantine

Following a routine is truly beneficial for children, as it provides them with a sense of structure and safety in their day-to-day lives. Therefore, it’s important to implement schedules and activities to carry out during this period of confinement.

For example, you can use the morning hours to do schoolwork and leave afternoons for leisure activities. However, you also need to make room in your days for physical activities, as children need to burn off energy. Given the obvious limitations, you’ll need to make use of your creativity and whatever technological resources you have.

In the same way, it’s very beneficial for little ones to get fresh air and exposure to the sun for a few hours. If your house doesn’t have a yard, then you can turn to more relaxing activities to do by a window or on your balcony. For example, reading books or coloring.

At the same time, to help reduce anxiety and nervousness in children, relaxation and meditation techniques are also a good idea. There are several versions that are adapted to little ones that can help make a difference in your at-home stay.

3. Time alone

And finally, we need to point out that, even though spending so much time as a family is a gift, we all need some time to ourselves. Spending every hour of the day together can make us feel even more irritable and overwhelmed. Therefore, give your children time to enjoy some time alone in their own space.

Encourage them to play in their rooms, read by themselves, or develop new skills that are fun and enriching. For example, learning lettering or origami can be two great options.

In conclusion, try to make the days go by in an orderly, varied, and well-balanced fashion. Help your little ones keep their bodies and their minds busy, with times for taking care of responsibilities as well as relaxing.

Do your best to offer your children a calm and positive environment and, above all else, remember, this too shall pass.