Prepare your beloved child to be ready when Covid arrives this semester.

Prepare your beloved child to be ready when Covid arrives this semester.

Although Covid-19 has been a relief, everyone begins to have an outside life. But Covid-19 is still a disease that keeps developing the new variant so, for the sake of the health and safety of kids, under your advice. Practicing and preparing them to handle and behave in the environment that the pandemic might return to anytime is very important. In this article, we recommend 5 ways to prepare your kids to be safe from covid. 

1. Correctly wash the hand, protect all around

Covid is a virus that can spread from aerosol . Common situation that can be seen is using your hand to cover the mouth when sneezing, then using your hand to touch the doorknob, the kids might not be as careful as an adult. When they have already touched the doorknob, they might use it to rub their eyes. So, Building the behavior and teaching the correct way to wash their hands is the best way to protect them. On the other hand, if the kids have to play with their friends, keeping them away for 1 arm span and having them to always wear a face mask is helpful, despite it being really hard for them to do so.

2. Body immunity can easily build from family member 

Family is the beginning point of everyone so family should provide an easy knowledge of the disease to the kids, including building the body immunity can be also do that in the family. Good immunity can occur when children have good nutrition, complete with all 5 food groups, get adequate rest and have appropriate exercise. But a problem that frequently occurs in 1+ year old kids is picky eating. So, in this article we recommend the parents to have them participate in the food preparation process like washing the vegetables. When the food is ready, there's a tendency of the kids to eat more because it is a food that they made by themselves.  The milk is to let them drink only 2-3 boxes (250 ml) a day is just enough for them. In knowledge providing, it is recommended to use books that tell a story by a picture and should be fun to learn. Finally, parents should be good role models that may begin with taking them to wash their hands and not touching their face when doing daily life habits.

3. Prepare weapons to always be ready but take only with necessary.

Nowadays, there’s a protective tool with a cute design and suitable for kids to use but the most necessary things are only medical face masks and alcohol gel. A face mask should be prepared suitably to the kids' age. But WHO recommended that if the age of kids is lower than 5, they should be kept in the house and not have to wear a face mask because improper way to wear a face mask might increase the risk to the kids, including the study that shows that wearing the mask in the kids can increase the chance of oxygen insufficiency, So parents should be closely supervised.  And the kids with 12 years old or higher can use adult size masks in the correct ways, that is wash your hand before wearing the mask, face to the correct side and entirely cover your nose and mouth.

4. Build relationship, develop mental health

Mental health is as important as physical health. From the previous lockdown and Quarantine the kids might have depression from only living in the house and not having regular daily life outside. So, the family should have a conversation to build the relationship between them. Because a frequent conversation can make the parent more understanding to the kids. Parents should use reflection of feelings, that is no matter what, keep open your mind, listen to them, no judging, to make them rely on you while they’re still young. Make them feel you are reliable and they will have the courage to tell the story to you more.

5. The kids will safe if the family is safe

Some patients might not only be infected from the kids and spread to the members. But it might be from the workplace of the parents, so an adult should not be careless in self protection from the disease because if the adult is sick, the kid will be infected by you.