The advice of pediatrics to help keep children active at home

The kids are the ones most suffering from being locked up to be protected from the coronary epidemic. But the same can be said of their parents, overwhelmed by the need to manage their vitality in the absence of school and friends and numerous daily tasks. SIPPS scholars, the Italian Association of Prevention and Social Paddys, including psychomotor development professionals and speech therapists, offer some helpful advice.

The suggestions are designed for children under the age of six, but with little parental imagination, they can also be useful and for children a little older. With a little kindness and a flexible soul, it is actually possible to organize a useful day program to stimulate children in their development, rather than make them bored.

Here's the advice of SIPPS pediatrics:

Let your children help you in daily situations Time spent near parents in imitation is an excellent system of cognitive and emotional learning: It promotes excellent motor skills and interhuman relationships.

Play dressed Fathers can usually replace mothers for changing children. This is a way to reinvent day after day passages with them.

Share cooking activities Spread an orange, cut a banana or a boiled egg into small pieces - these are activities that even young ones can perform and that will give them great satisfaction in eating or drinking something prepared by themselves!

Group objects Learning the first mathematical concepts as adding or subtracting becomes as easy as a game, in fact, if you pack piles of similar objects, such as pasta, to build necklaces, rings to give gifts, or seasonal fruit to put into baskets.

Making knots, tape, bows Simple colored verses are enough, you can start with unclothed shoes for moving to athletes.

Balls, paper balls, rope These are games that include collaborative relationships between people, whether there are two or more sisters or sisters, or parents and children - we stimulate harmonious movement, socialization, awareness of the environment around us. If you are in an apartment with concerned neighbors, you can form a paper ball so that you can make less noise.

Read stories by dramatizing and building them Do not read quickly; try to use different shades and tones for different characters to make the atmosphere more spectacular and appealing.

Cartons Using boxes of different sizes, you can build houses, cars, planes, swords, helmets. All you need is scissors and glue to pack a car or a spaceship into which to sit and turn into pilots, astronauts, horsemen, and princesses.

Dance, listening to music The dance, imitating the steps of mother and father, will stimulate them to move in a harmonious manner.

Sing alone or together Listening to and learning small songs, discovering poems, playing them together also helps to produce the individual sounds.