Practical Parenting

A resource for parents to learn, lead and love their children through all steps of their lives.

Natacha

With Every End, There Is A New Beginning

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So we have reached another end to a year. Some have experienced difficult challenges, losses, and pressures. Some may have had opportunities, successes, and a smooth-running year.

Something I came across this year 2021, is Resilience (read the article written on Resilience). https://www.practicalparenting.co.za/2020/08/26/resilience-bouncing-back/.

We managed another year with Covid and its’ variants. What you didn’t realise in your survival mode was that you were coping in the best way possible or the best way you knew how. You had your struggles and oppositions. You were confronted with frightening events. But you are Here Today!

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Creating your own… Monster Spray!

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Are your kids afraid of going to sleep at night? Are they afraid of monsters or zombies? Well don’t look further, Monster Spray will make all the monsters disappear!

Creating your own Fuzzy Wuzzies!

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I would like to present my first video of a practical fun exercise you can do with your child, to create characters to explain any story that may relate to the child, to encourage the child through any difficult circumstance that they may be experiencing.

Making the characters together allows your child to share some of the character’s feelings or emotions which in turn helps the child to project onto the character. It also improves the bond between you and your child, whilst helping with problem solving skills when something is challenging.

Allow your child to have some choices in creating the character, don’t dictate to them what it is supposed to look like. Watch the video together.

But most of all…..ENJOY AND HAVE FUN!

I present to you: How To Make a PomPom Character which I call the FUZZY WUZZIES.

Fear & Sleeping

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What happens in the brain…

When the brain is stressed, it doesn’t perform normally. Parts shut down, and other parts light up.

The infographic below shows what happens in the brain when it’s stressed, especially in relation to it’s inability to sleep properly.

There’s an explanation below the graphic that goes into more detail around the different parts of the brain in this stressed state.

AFTER ALL THIS, DON’T LOSE YOUR MOJO

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It’s important to remember that after all of this isolation and lockdown, we must not forget to still be functional. A big fear is whether we are going to be able to function as normal again.

Will we remember how to drive?

Will we still have our job?

Our children fear whether they will be repeating the grade. 

Is this going to be like a “gap year” for most of us?

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