Being alone has become a much more normalized concept that we fearfully must cope with and get used to. However, the working class shared living space, and family demographic have had to find a new way of coping with community social distance concept, to say the least. This is a very sketchy and dangerous topic for most of us. We’re going to stick with basic ideas and streaming supports based on educational level. Seeing as though most non-essential industry workers are at home and all school-aged children and youth are out of school under a mandate, we are going to explore some helpful internet and streaming basics that will be useful in staying calm, clean and connected; as we continue to cope with the extreme pressures that have become commonplace in are COVID19 aware society.
Most of the infants and toddlers sleep, eat, and poop for most of the day. However, with the new technology age, they all seem like they are born with blue tooth capability and Wi-Fi connectors in the NeuroSystems. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed and check out some things that are ideal for inside activities best suited for preschoolers. Traditionally these are the little guys and gals that are almost (some already) potty trained and walking on their own up through ages 5 or 6. Most activities should last between 20-45 minutes and the internet and live television usage should be limited to less than 1 hour per day independently. Due to the importance of it being a fundamental stage for forming decision making and complex thought processing capabilities; letters, numbers, and colors will be their best friends. Not to overstructured and preferably crayons and colored pencils for mass usage. Even though they don’t keep them in their hands long it helps them learn how to properly hold hand safely handle writing utensils as they grow. Which will later make completing homework assignments and structured requests a lot easier to adapt to when they begin to start school. Free-hand or scrap paper and Large print coloring books will reduce the clean–up and will prove to be much more friendly. The following are a few links that support the preschool age social enhancement exercises necessary to create a socially healthy toddler or preschooler.
https://www.thepathway2success.com/using-games-to-teach-social-emotional-skills/, Kristina Scully. pathway@thepathway2success.com
http://autismteachingstrategies.com/free-social-skills-downloads-2/ AutismTeachingStrategies.com Joel Shaul
https://www.educationcorner.com/social-skills-for-kindergarten.html 5 Social Skills That Are Important for Kindergarten Becton Loveless
School-aged children come each with their particular interests, strengths, and weaknesses. Use this as a starting point for a general rule of thumb for all of the little people that are usually being educated away from home and not used to an online or stay at the home module for their education. If they don’t already know these things about themselves you can lend a helping hand by helping them to articulate and identify their interest or favorite subjects in school. If you have twins or more than one school-aged child in the home at the same time; encourage creativity. For example they may both like math, finding that one likes to bake and/cook probably means that they will be good at geometry, ratios, proportions, and things of the sort. You might learn that the other likes gaming and consoles so they will be better at long division, trigonometry, or drawing pictures with a projector. You can use the following links for those left-brain fanatics that have a difficult time focusing during class and have no idea what they like or dislike about the current education plan or school. These young ladies and gents are usually snap chap and a social media specialist. So, getting off their social media device to even have the discussion will be a chore. So, patience will be your best friend for this group. Also, finding things more appeasing will traditionally be their idea if you intend on keeping the peace while in close quarters. Internet use and live T.V. interactions will be between 2 and 6 hours a day for this age group and you are more than welcome to reach out to a specialist for a detailed plan for the eclectic and assumed difficult child who doesn’t care for the ideas of focused activities.
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