3 Online Activities To Help Students Cope With The COVID19 Stress
BY ADMIN PUBLISHED June 16, 2021, UPDATED January 1, 1970
Little minds and bodies are meant for physical activities, emotional development and mental growth. But the pandemic and lockdown narrowed down the various options into very limited ones for them. They are trying very hard to cope up with the changed pandemic scenarios and their routine virtual classes without any physical assurance and proximity. Thus, parents and teachers should definitely find ways and activities to ease out the stress and pressure of these times and help them grow and develop holistically.
Overall development and growth comprise much more than just academic knowledge and involves many activities and methods for the kids. One should look for activities and well-being practices that can help students feel connected and resilient during the pandemic. Let’s see to the various activities one can plan for their kids.
- For Building On Their Strengths: Kids should be made to answer and analyse a questionnaire about their strengths and weaknesses. They should be made to answer the various reflection questions with the pandemic in mind and look out for ways and methods to help them form or enhance their strengths. A strength-based approach at school improves student’s engagement and grades and create more positive social dynamics among students. Their strengths can also help them overcome adversity.
- For Emotional Management: These are testing times for the kids and their emotional growth and understanding. It should be of great importance to normalize negative emotions in kids and generate ways to promote positive emotions. They should be made to discuss their emotions in these pandemic times. One can also create an online poll listing the various emotions like stress, curiosity, frustration, happiness, angry, playful, etc. and ask them about 5 emotions they are feeling most frequently in the pandemic. Discuss the survey results and also effective ways of dealing with the top two negative emotions.
- For Finding Calm In These Times: These methods and exercises are important to calm the little hearts and clear their minds with unnecessary burdens in these times. Ask the kids to do a square breathing exercise and then ask them to rate their stress levels on a scale of 1 to 10. Tell and discuss with them the various importance of simple breathing exercises and strategies to calm down the nerves. Students who learn mindfulness skills at school report that it helps to reduce their stress and anxiety.
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