Boredom During Corona Virus Lock-down

Spending a lot of time at home at the moment due to measures put in place to control the spread of the coronavirus disease has shown that a lot of parents are faced with the difficulty of keeping their children entertained.

With a pause from the usual hustle and bustle of their everyday work and social life, this quarantine period offers parents a chance to bond effectively with their children and get to know them, their dreams and aspirations, better.

On the other hand, despite all schools (primary, secondary and tertiary) being on a mandatory break, some schools and media houses have come up with initiatives to occupy Ghanaian students, with electronic-learning tools.

 Parents can also look for fun activities such as:

• Role Play:

Children take notice of how parents and other people around them behave, and tend to pick up certain behaviors. One can ask a child to act as his parent, thus giving an opportunity to parents to know what their kids think of them

• Charades/ Pick and act
• Hide and seek
• Board and video games
• Local games like ‘oware’
• Intellectual quizzes
• Keep fit/Exercise Routines
• Telling them or letting them tell make-belief stories to keep them entertained

As you spend more time with your family during this period, make good memories and take photos of happy times. It is very easy to get occupied with all that is happening in the world that we forget to recognize the happy moments happening right in front of us. Make every effort to enjoy the time at home as you keep safe!