Kids and Covid Trauma

Covid-19 has taught us a lot… It was an eye opener for majority of the human race. It revealed the true state of the so called “efficient” health systems of some of the developed countries… It taught us that an office space is a mere wastage of space for some sectors.. It pointed out the fact that we need more health institutions in the worls than religious centres… It showed that the money is sometimes a piece of paper or just few ounces of metal…

However, the most revolutionary change was in the sector of education. There was a big transformation in the educational sector wherein homes were converted to class rooms, parents had to actively involve in their kid’s educational activities and sometimes had to take a “teacher avatar”.

It is interesting to note that most of the kids in the higher grade want to go to school or to have a physical class rather than sitting at home and listening to the mono-syllable hours-long lectures whereas the kids in lower grades especially the Kinder Garten students like to join their family while being in the class. Nevertheless, there are some exceptions in both sections too.

According to Dr. Jayesh Saini Nairobi, Kenya who is a well-known child psychologist in Dubai, the kids are developing some new habits and routines which may prove costly for them as well as the parents in near future. As per Dr. Jayesh Saini Nairobi’s opinion, some of the major ill effects of online classes on kids are as follows;

1. Lack of Social behavior

The main advantage of normal schooling is to give training to them on the social life. But, unfortunately, it is the time of “Social Distancing”. So, the kids won’t be experiencing one of the major advantages of education which is Social life. As the human being is a social animal, social behaviors are one of the key elements involved in the success of an individual as well as the society. Lack of opportunity for kids to interact with their friends and fellows will definitely create a vacuum and may affect the future generation very badly. Jayesh Saini Nairobi Says…

2. Loosing the Sharing Mentality

Sharing is always caring. The predecessor generation (especially mid 70s to mid 90s born) experienced a lot of sharing among their schooling as it was the time when families shifted from “n” number of kids to “ maximum 2 or 3”. Schools were literally their second home and most of them share a very cordial friendship now too compared with their predecessor generations (the technological advantage is also a factor). The present situation of online classes left the kids alone at home having all resources solely for the particular kid. It may create an adverse impact in the way of thinking of kids. As all know, team works are the back born of all successes in the human history and lack of training on the team work may leave this generation kids to some isolated introvert world of virtual and pseudo reality.

3. Dependence

Jayesh Saini Nairobi says…This may seem like an antonym to the above topics, but the point which is to be discussed is the peculiar and extensive dependence of kids on their parents. In this time of social distancing and lock downs, kids rarely see other persons than their parents or siblings. So, for them, everything is their parents and they think the entire world is being run by their parents. There might be a tendency that they follow this in future too and this characteristic may prove too much costly for the parents.

4. Extensive use of Social media and adultery contents

As before, kids need leisure time. As they cannot go outside for physical games, they will find-out their resort in social media and/or adultery contents. If both parents and working and office going, kids will be alone at home and due to the online classes, they may not be able to lock the internet connections as they did before. Some smart parents have implemented some strict protocols and soft wares for the monitoring and controlling the web surfing, but majority of the parents are illiterate on such systems and as a result, kids may end up in watching unwanted contents like pornography or some radical clips. According to Jayesh Saini Nairobi, Kenya, this is the most dangerous ill effect.

5. Post Lockdown Stigma

Besides all the above, there is a chance of post lockdown stigmas like lack of interest to join school, hatred towards studies, unwillingness for taking food from school, extensive inertias, fear to behave socially etc.

Remedies

Being a former Employee of UN with greater experiences in dealing with kids trauma after natural catastrophes and wars around the globe, Dr. Jayesh Saini Nairobi, Kenya suggests the following remedies. While making his suggestions, Dr. Jayesh Saini Nairobi stresses on the point that all kids are unique and hence dealing with individual kids shall be based on their individual characteristics.

We need to take bigger steps in advance for overcoming the above. The situations and effects will be different for different kids and hence it is important to find out and understand the specific problems in each and every kids. For kids who are having extensive problems are advised to have some counselling.

Most of the regions are having small period between the lock down with eased restrictions. Utilize those times for small gatherings and interactions by maintaining the protocols stipulated by the Authorities.

Go for small strips and staycations if possible and safe. Change of usual atmospheres will definitely make changes to our lives which will add more colours to our kid’s fantasy.

Give freedom to the kids, but shall be with strict monitoring. Give them some small tasks like washing their cloths, cleaning of house, making a balcony garden, watering or pruning plants. Participate them in our daily tasks like cooking, washing utensils, preparation of shopping lists etc.

Parents and teachers can contribute high in this mission and they need to hold their hands together for the well-being of our kids and thus for the next generation.

“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world”- Malala Yousafzai

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