'We need to remain flexible and continue to adjust our expectations as we experiment and learn what works best.'
The first big change I made is that I now allow climbing up on and jumping off furniture — most of the time. Our daughter is a highly active child. We live high up on a steep hill that she's been climbing at least twice a day since she started to walk, so she's accustomed to getting a lot of physical exercise. She, gymnastics, and spends hours climbing and running at the beach and the playground.
Most everyone I know has increased their screen-time limits during this pandemic, and our family is no exception. I used to be, with slow-speed high-quality animated programming during the week and movies on the weekends. Currently, we are allowing movies every day, and we often allow the full movie to play, rather than breaking it up into two segments so as not to exceed our daily limit of one hour. If we start to see behavior problems, however, we pull in the reigns on this one.
Before the pandemic, our daughter often fell asleep immediately — or sometimes played with books and stuffed animals for a short while — but now she's having more trouble sleeping, probably because she isn't getting as much physical activity. To help her with this, we're letting her play audiobooks for an hour after bedtime so she has something to do if she just isn't tired.
Similar to bedtime, we also enforce a daily quiet time of 45 minutes — something we did before the pandemic. We don't want to break this habit just because of the current circumstances. Rest time helps our daughter recharge, and it encourages her to develop her imagination when she plays independently. I also take this time to just veg out. Between homeschooling, working from home, and running the home, I need a break, too.
When we started to reevaluate our house rules after it became clear that the lockdown was going to be a longterm thing, we really focused on what was best for the whole family. Our daughter's needs are very important; she needs stimulation, physical movement, and, most of all, loving interaction during this uncertain time. She needs us to create as many opportunities as we can to find substitutes for the life she's used to.
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