Parenting In Pandemic Times

Parenting in pandemic times

INTRODUCTION

Confinement for the Covid-19 crisis worldwide could generate some raising some generations.

‘Social distance’ ‘covers” healthscope of life seized the mode of speakers.

‘The world is constantly changing and with this we see how language and language change’ 

Testimonials of many parents around the world agree that children do not consider talking or relating to other children and even when they see more people on the street ‘they give them a strange scent’.

Now there is a concern about the ‘social lack’ that children will suffer. Those same parents who abandoned their children to technology are those who now care about their children’s relationship with other children.

Although there is no time or evidence in respect of the ravages that isolation can bring to children, scientists speculate on possible risks;These highlight the importance of social interaction in learning, this theory was proposed by Vigotsky.

Very recent neuronal studies report that "the development of language and cognitive ability is encouraged through verbal and physical exchange". Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, director of the Child Language Laboratory at the Temple University and Senior Member of the Brookings institution, said that "social relations influence connectivity, development and brain structure".

Experts warn that technology restricts communication between parents and children and have proposed the term ‘technology’ to call the interruption of the effectiveness of conversation lines.

Hirsh-Pasek affirms this context as a social hurricane ‘Children and babies do not live with more children and receive the fear of their parents for other people’ ’.

There was a similar study in 1974 after the great depression. This study presents a lot of hope because there was ‘a good resilience trajectory’.

The focal points about this period were, according to Brenda Volling, Michigan psychologist:

Economic stability

Children absorb from parents ‘how the world is’, if they can trust, if they are safe;Parents reveal the child if the world is safe. Children can grow with that concern, such as a natural attorney by parents.

In the great depression, the children of the parents who exceeded the economic crisis faster, had a healthier development.

Family interaction

"It’s a lie that children have no interaction," says the expert. Children receive the best, older and more important of all attention and interactions in the world: that of their parents.

Children do not need interaction with other children, but with their parents: a loving, understandable, attentive, stable relationship with their dad and their mother will support good development in every way.

Work and family converge in a single place

The expert considers that the good management and alignment of working hours with family coexistence is vital for development, not only of the child, but of the whole family.

"In the great depression – writes the psychologist – the tension was such that the families wanted to be together, with money much or little did not matter, the moment led to be together and know that everyone was fine".

In this time of pandemic we have everything, technology, security, medical advances and total or partial comfort, from asking for a pizza to sending the super do. Not leaving aside the people who – I sensibly write – lost a relative.