Covid-19 Schedules: The Corona Days

Social distancing, self isolation, genuine hard core quarantining, it all requires some structure so you don’t lose your minds, bodies or spirits. Also, we want to keep our children healthy and happy. Here at home we have the following schedules for during the week, which my step son has smartly labelled:

The Corona Days

MONDAY – THURSDAY

07:30 – 09:00 : wake up, general hygiene, get dressed, clean room, do chores, make and eat breakfast
09:00 – 10:00 : outdoor time, take Kubo for walk
10:00 – 12:30 : quiet time – no screens, no noise, do something productive/work on project
12:30 – 13:30 : make and eat lunch
13:30 – 16:00 : quiet time, with screens (no You Tube, no noise, no tv, no games)
16:00 – 17:00 : sports/exercise/Kubo – move your body
17:00 – 22:00 : free time, family time, dinner
21:30 – 22:30 : relax, quiet, hygiene, bed time

“Quiet Time” we explained to the kids is for us to be working and for them to be focusing on something they want to work on. We are not being very strict on them having a concrete goal or project but if the schools stay close into the second term it will be easier for them to use these quiet time periods for actual school work. It’s going to be a lot harder to shift from endless screen time to having the discipline to study at home.

Kubo is our dog, we have a very small garden and a young, active 6 month old puppy. He needs to be walked at least once a day. Fortunately this is an outdoor activity and we find most people are physically keeping away from each other in these open, public places.

We make things a bit easier on Friday, after mosque I am taking it a little easier and spending more time with people – even if this means via facetime/whatsapp calls, group chats and social media.

FRIDAY

08:30 – 09:30 : wake up, general hygiene, get dressed, clean room, do chores, make and eat breakfast
09:30 – 12:00 : quiet time – no screens, no noise, do something productive/work on project
12:00 – 13:30 : make lunch, jumuah, and eat lunch
13:30 – 16:00 : free time
16:00 – 17:00 : sports/exercise/Kubo – move your body
17:00 – 20:30 : free time, family time, dinner
20:30 : movie night

WEEKENDS

No one can be productive all the time, weekends are still weekends. Even though we are hanging out a lot more at home, we are leaving the day open to the idea of possibility.

Here are some other activities:

A puzzle: Even if they think they are too cool for puzzles, if there is an unfinished puzzle taking up space in a public space, eventually the children will start to do it. Even if it’s out of pure boredom.

Boardgames and innovations; if the kids are getting tired of the same boardgames, why not try mix it up and make your own game. Use pieces from one game, cards from another and the board of another, set a target for winning and then make some rules. Making the game up will take up some time and it will need to be refined through play and trial and error. It’s a great exercise on iteration 🙂

Garden project; growing something can be incredibly satisfying for a young person. Depending on your own space, this might be growing seeds in a ice-cream tub, a planter or in your garden outside. This one might require a little research and getting the right seeds, maybe grow a pepper or a flower of some sort.

Other resources:

Check out Austin Kleon Zines: https://austinkleon.com/tag/zines/

Audible has made lots of kids books free: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

NOTES ON ANXIETY

Let’s not under estimate the stress this is putting on children and ourselves. It is important to constantly check in with those you love and remember that children can’t always articulate their feelings of anxiety. Watch them and act accordingly. Maybe don’t over stress the situation, maybe talk about the virus and its impacts when they are out of ear shot and certainly do not add to the stress by giving them extra things to worry about. Facilitate their relationships with family and friends, give them your phone for calls. I always try to be honest but we also don’t want to add to the stress.

I will keep updating this post if we get more ideas and the situation changes, in the meantime – stay sanitising!

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Shireen Galant · March 23, 2020 at 12:42 pm

Excellent to have a structured program . I was just telling your dad we must work out a program.If complete lockdown exercise gonna be very difficult for us. Lol maybe we will just run around from back to front garden for 30min
And I must get dressed in mrng still in pjs not cool
Love u lots
Mom❤️

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