Children and COVID times

During these pandemic times, I see children who are under 12 years are the most affected. When I see kids who are supposed to start their first steps into Montessori and further are doing online classes. Which in my view is inefficient and disgusting. These kids are losing social skills, disciplinary skills.

They do not know what is punctuality and discipline and obeying elders etc. Their fine motoring skills are going for a toss. No one is able to help them. We as parents are trying our best to induce some learning and writing habits in their brain but due to familiar faces they are not so keen on doing what we say. They need a commanding voice in the form of a teacher in front  of them. Only then they will start inclining towards academics. Other wise, we are here for a very dark phase of life in these kids lives. 

Kids below 12 years are addicted to cellphones increasingly and with no other choice left during the COVID times. We really cant ask them to not look at cellphone or play games in cellphones as going outside and playing is a dangerous option. Some kids who do want to get locked with a cellphone try to use all the indoor toys but for how long? So we are in a phase where the Kids are PUSHED BY LACK OF CHOICE TO WATCH/PLAY ON A CELLPHONE.

Just when we had hopes of schools opening up, we have Omicron hitting the streets and Governments thinking to lock the cities again. Its really sad to see such things happening in front of our eyes, which we had seen in sci-fi movies probably 10 years back.

I just hope kids from this phase of history are not classified as pandemic kids just because they were deprived of good education.

Off the topic: In Karnataka the government has introduced multiple choice questions for SSLC (10th Std) which I think doesn't make sense and makes it difficult to differentiate between kids who have good skills and who are merely ticking answers in randomness.