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Don't overload children wrth co-curricular ACTIVITIES

ParentsWorld India|October 2022
While it is the obligation of parents to discover and enable children's multiple intelligences, they also have a duty of care to ensure that children don't experience stress and anxiety while managing crammed schedules of co-curricular and sports activities
- RAMIYA SAKTHIVEL, CYNTHIA JOHN MINI P.
Don't overload children wrth co-curricular ACTIVITIES

The maximum learning loss that children experienced during the prolonged lockdown of schools during the past two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, was in co-curricular and sports education. While academic learning switched to the online mode, most co-curricular, sports and outdoor activities came to a standstill.

Now with the pandemic having receded to the point of having become a bad dream, parents are going all out to make up for this loss by enrolling children in a host of co-curricular and sports education classes. From theatre, dance, music, public speaking and robotics to tennis, swimming, badminton and life skills classes, parents countrywide are signing children for an array of co-curricular and extra-curricular programmes.

Yet, although well-intentioned, cramming children's schedules already full with school and tuition, can compound the disruptive stress that they experienced during the pandemic, warn child counsellors.

The case of Dhruv Chand, a 13-year-old teen living in New Delhi, is instructive. "I enrolled Dhruv in coaching classes of three different sports to make up for two years of sports deficit during the pandemic. But after just one month he started burning out, unable to cope with full-day classes and after-school sports coaching.

His grades began to fall and he revealed that he was always tired and had no energy to study. Since then, he has dropped out of one sport and spaced out the coaching of the other two. This has helped him balance his daily schedule better," says Vineeta Chand, an IT engineer and Dhruv's mother.

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