Every day, almost every social networking site you can open, all kinds of information about pneumonia will pop up on the first page: words such as "new", "suspected", "symptoms" and "death toll". Faced with such overwhelming information, not only adults can't bear it, but children will also feel uneasy and anxious.
What kind of problems will happen to children who stay at home for a long time in such a crisis? Children may have anxiety, irritability, fear and nervousness. Think about it. Children can usually run in the sun every day, but now they can only stay at home. Usually, the community is very lively every day, but now it is quiet every day. Some children may even cause anorexia, diarrhea and other serious behavioral reactions.
This situation may be related to these reasons, and parents should carefully analyze it.
1: Children's work and rest time becomes irregular, sleeping late and getting up late, and day and night are reversed.
2. Long-term use of mobile phones and other electronic devices, no exercise.
3. Parents excessively restrict going out, and children have little room for activities.
4. Raise the epidemic situation in front of children for a long time and broadcast relevant epidemic situation reports.
5. Some overly nervous behaviors, such as urging children to wash their hands all day at home, warning children to wear masks and so on.
Parents can do this when their children stay at home and become irritable and anxious.
Children have anxiety, mostly because they don't know enough about the new pneumonia, and the influence of a few words on the outside world makes them overly afraid.
The first thing parents should do is to explain the origin and causes of pneumonia outbreak in a way that they can understand, so that children can know what the epidemic will bring to people and what measures the country has taken to solve it now.
Show children some animation works about the occurrence and spread of the virus, so that children can understand it most intuitively through vision. Children should also know that not everyone will be infected with the virus, not necessarily infected with the virus will die, let alone never go out.
But also let children know that the most dangerous possibility will happen under objective conditions, so that children can take precautions consciously. Let them know why they can't go out and let the children understand.
"The unknown is often the most fearful thing", so for children with shallow cognition, knowing the ins and outs of a thing may be the best way to adjust anxiety.
Even we can let the children see how the cutest medical staff are fighting ahead, and let them know that because of them, we are very safe at home, so don't worry.
Step 2 control yourself
Because everyone stays at home together at this time, if parents become anxious because of the news of the epidemic at this time, then children will certainly be affected by the same and become more anxious.
Parents need to adjust and control their emotions at this time, and don't talk too much about sensitive words with them at ordinary times. If children ask questions related to the epidemic, they can choose some positive answers.
Parents need to let their children know that the country is working hard, the medical staff is working hard and everyone is working hard. When we are United, difficulties will be overcome.
Step 3: Listen.
"If you want to predict the consequences, you must predict the causes."
To know the cause of children's anxiety, we can prescribe the right medicine. Choosing to listen is one of the best ways. Usually, children are often immersed in their own small world, and many parents may not have a good chat with their children for a long time because they are busy.
It is advisable to communicate with children more during this "closed" period to understand their inner world and psychological changes. After the child speaks out, parents can give their children some inspiration and help in time, and will not make them too anxious.
You can choose to chat with your child at a fixed time every day, or even have a family meeting, hug and touch your child more.
4. Friendship
Playing has always been a child's nature.
Staying at home all day during the epidemic, they will definitely feel anxious and lonely because of boredom day after day. At this time, all parents can do is stay at home. In fact, there are still many entertainment activities in daily life that can be carried out indoors.
A few days ago, I saw my relatives share a little game of making their own rings in a circle of friends. This is very suitable for indoor development. With rows of oranges criss-crossing, you can press some small denominations of cash under some oranges, and then make a simple circle with cardboard to delimit a suitable area so that children can play ring games like outside.
Entertainment games can effectively kill their boring time, reduce their willingness to go out, and also ease their anxiety and turn their attention to interesting things.
Of course, younger children can also buy scene games to deliver or sell things. Various scene games can close the distance between children and parents and greatly enhance parent-child relationship.