My granddaughters having lunch during homeschooling Every disadvantage presents opportunities for finding good. Every difficulty has advantages within if you look for them. Concerning isolation or social distancing we have been provided unique opportunities. It could be a home project you could never get to before. Maybe you can find more time to get to know your kids better and what they are thinking. Perhaps you can organize your computer files or write your memoir.
I have some non-medical prescriptions to suggest that hopefully will help during the social distancing phase of the Covid-19 crisis.
More importantly, the ideas this list provides is a prompt to use your imagination to make lemonade out of this lemon of a virus.
I’m hoping the COVID-19 crisis and requirements for family isolation will connect fathers, mothers, and children like never before. But with that comes the need for patience! Escape to a room to let off any tension you may find building up. Something to consider in advance!
Let’s get through this!
#powerofdadhood
I have some non-medical prescriptions to suggest that hopefully will help during the social distancing phase of the Covid-19 crisis.
- Take a drive in the country. Better yet, go there and talk a walk through nature.
- Keep informed, but do not watch the news 24-7.
- Take advantage of binge-watching a series on TV. Escape is nice.
- Home school your children. You will learn as much about them as they will learn from you.
- Catch up with friends with dreaded social media. (Social media can be as good or bad as you want to make it)
- Read a book or two!
- Facetime friends and family
- Write a journal. It may of interest to your grandkids when this is in the history books.
- If you’re like me, you need to organize your photos.
- Blow off the dust on those board games.
- Take a course online. I’m watching a ‘Udemy’ course about Photoshop Elements.
- Take a walk in your house if you can’t walk outside. It’s easy if you have a circular path or long hallway or a basement in your house.
- Dance to Pandora, Spotify, iTunes, or your favorite radio station. Exercise and fun in one activity.
- Videoconference with your grandparents, grandkids, or friends using Zoom or another service.
- Do a puzzle using https://im-a-puzzle.com/
- Use cardboard boxes with holes to play indoor golf with your kids. No drivers!
- If you are alone, call somebody or talk to Alexa. (“Alexa, tell me some good news”)
- Clean out your closets/garage!
- Search for good Podcasts for you and your kids. There are tons! (e.g., Fun Kids Science Weekly )
- Catch up on sleep, if possible. Nap when your kids nap, or just enjoy the quiet.
- Think about and enjoy the spring weather! It should get better each week.
- Do a coordinated drive-by for kids’ friends’ birthdays. Make signs, yell out your windows, and honk your horns! (Already happening in my neighborhood.)
- Most good ideas come not from your education but letting your mind rest. Take advantage of the opportunity to push ‘everyday workday’ thoughts out of your head - those that generally take up most of your time.
- Stop and think about what you are now missing and miss so you can be grateful when you get it back.
More importantly, the ideas this list provides is a prompt to use your imagination to make lemonade out of this lemon of a virus.
I’m hoping the COVID-19 crisis and requirements for family isolation will connect fathers, mothers, and children like never before. But with that comes the need for patience! Escape to a room to let off any tension you may find building up. Something to consider in advance!
Let’s get through this!
#powerofdadhood
