Spending time at home with your children can strengthen their creativity, discipline and education. We tell you how to take advantage of it.
If you have children, days at home are an opportunity to get closer to them and enjoy moments that you couldn't before due to work or school schedules. The best way is through games and recreational activities, which will help them enhance their tastes and abilities.
The first step then, It is seeing your home as a space full of possibilities to develop activities with your children., beings full of imagination, curiosity and energy who learn, among many other ways, through example.
This is what the Chilean psychologist, writer and lecturer says Pilar Sordo, who adds that one of the first things you should do as a parent is to talk to your children and make them understand the reasons why they will be at home and the responsibility they have as a family to take care of each other and take care of others.
When it is not a holiday, the expert adds that children must understand that it is not a period of rest, and that just as there will be time for play, there will also be time for studying. Soto assures that it is necessary to set limits, tenderness, firmness, patience, willpower and a sense of humor.
This means that there must be a routine at home. You have to wake up at a certain time, take a bath, get dressed, tidy up your room, study and play. This whole routine will, of course, depend on the age of your children.
Below are some activities you can do with them to share and learn together:
