Kids Behavioral Changes During Imposition Of Lockdown in COVID-19 Scenario

A lot has been written and a lot more still needs to be written about the pandemic of COVID-19

People write about….

How did it broke out (mishandling of virus in lab/ intentional introduction into human population/ possibly a BIOCIDE and much more to think!)

Possible causes (virus, carrier, transmission, spread)

Misconceptions (about prevention remedies,

Consequences (risk to survival/ economic crash/ halted life)

Cases (Numbers, Symptomatic /asymptomatic)

Recoveries

Mortalities

Handling issues

Solutions

What I am going to write about has not been a TREND on social media NOR it has been discussed at any forum as far as I have observed.

I won’t talk of it as a debate but I would eagerly and humbly write about…

What my children have been doing and thinking throughout this pandemic and lockdown imposition as a safety measure to avoid being caught by virus.

What type of behavioral changes they adapted in response to precautionary incentives provided to them.

The degree of responsibility they opt for towards taking care of their siblings.

My elder daughter, Zumar; she is just four and half years old now, and she just celebrated her fourth birthday on February 2nd.

And it was a short while after that when a lockdown was imposed in the country on March 11.

She is such a cutie and eloquent in speaking.

One day her father was busy inside kitchen she came up, found him busy and left the area.

Being out of the kitchen, she closed the door, giggled and shouted I have locked down Baba inside.

OMG OMG OMG…

I was amused by her ability to perceive the meaning of the term and its usage in such an innocent way, Well! She’s grown up.

As she always has been very much fond of shopping. Keeps on reminding her Baba to shop a long list of items she is interested in, or she is affectionate, to have them. One day she came up to her Baba and asked him to make a promise, not to forget about, shop for the items list getting longer each day.

Every night she slept, after making a promise with her father, and next morning added another item before the day ended.

Talking about my younger daughter, she is 10 Months old now. It had been difficult for me to manage a huge burden of tasks to do with a little kid.

As I am a school principle, I had to manage…

house chores, getting kids ready for school, attending school, arriving home timely for cooking meals for family, help my kids in accomplishing their school tasks, taking care of kids, serving the guests; so a hectic job indeed.

And then CORONA BROKE OUT.

All the systems were dismantled.

No schools, no tuitions, no accomplishments, no guest, no more visits and no jobs until resilience started helping the systems in recovery process.

A trend developed to do everything ONLINE.

Business, Job, Study, Shopping, consulting doctor, family meetings etc.

Everyone started to adapt himself to changing environmental and socio-economic condition for survival.

Who doesn’t know the theory of survival of fittest and theory of natural selection?

Was it an event to generate MASS DEVASTATION, elimination of weakened and ill persons from the human population?

All right! Everyone tried to do his best. Taking good care of health and diet, eating healthy, doing healthy activities, adopting precautionary measures, to help immune system, boost its performance.

My kids adopted, not to go out strategy as CORONA was out there. My elder son who is 9 years old became conscious about his siblings…wearing mask, washing hands, taking regular bath, drinking luke warm water, avoiding handshake if outside for grocery with his father and most importantly, avoiding junk foods.

I was happy to see them chose the healthy one for eating, when junk was an option.

They switched themselves to an alternate source of enjoyment and playing.

Instead of playing cricket and football in the yard, they play chess and ludo in the drawing room, and many other traditional games, which had lost their value with the advent of technology.

As situation is getting better now… My kids have learnt many good things; they have grown responsible for self care.

They help me in cooking meal.

They have learnt to serve the guests.

My elder son is very good at making tea and frying kababs. My younger son will be 8 year old in August, and he aids me in house cleaning.

Zumar can fetch a glass of water for me, on demand, she also helps me in setting dinner table, puts items one by one, and she can extract seeds from pulses also.

Youngest kid, my daughter has grown up a bit. She crawls and will be able to walk by next month hopefully.

I think as if my capacity has been intensified by my kids.

So, time has not gone wasted, it has taught me, you and everyone very good lessons.