Six simple ways to keep your kids busy this vacation

Summer  has breezed in and vacations are  just  round the corner.  Vacations are our breathing space  in the middle of dreary and fast paced  life. It's very  referral  brings into mind a whole lot of  memories. Remember that  visit to nanibari, gulping loads of  mangoes and just sitting  simply doing nothing.

Flashback  off. Buzz in to  the present. You see your kids  spending endless hours watching  television  or playing  on their tablets. You get exasperated. We take them out  on  holidays  or get them enrolled in a summer camp. Camps or holidays however  last only for a few days and we are back to  square one.  So let's  plan something that creates nostalgia for  them when  they  grow up. Something  that productively  uses their time and  strengthens the bond between  you two.
We have  come  out with  a list of

eight such activities  to do this vacation

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1. Create something  together.  Pen down your  thoughts  and write a  story  or a poem together  or get crafty  and paint something  together. May be choreograph a song together. It doesn't  have to be a  masterpiece, just enjoy being together and create memories together.
2. Direct them to  write  letters  to their grandparents  or friends. No technology can  match the  thrill of writing a letter  and waiting for the reply  back. Plus this activity  will teach them to be patient and demonstrate to them the fruits of  waiting.
3. Throw a challenge to  them. Ask them to  read a book  in a record  time  and write a  review of  it. Or tell them to browse  for new words in the newspaper  and make a collage of  pictures  related to  the words.
4. Install a good habit or delete a bad one from  their system.  Our ancient  scriptures  say, it takes  forty days to create  or break a habit. Summer  vacations being the longest  holiday season, it is the perfect time to put the kids to a good  habit or weed out a bad one.
5. Once a week switch off all the  gadgets. Tell them to take  time doing nothing, just gazing at the  sky or stars at night. Remember  how  we used to imagine  figures in clouds and  stars. This is the perfect way to enlighten them on communicating with their inner self. It is a very important skill to learn taming the  monkey  mind.
6. Take time to  coach them on some life saving  skills. Today's  kids can shop on Amazon  but have little  knowledge about  the local markets. Take them there and let them see you  bargaining. Let them learn how to make  their beds  or arrange  their cupboards. These will come  very handy,  once they are  out on their own.

Friends,  vacations are  the only  time  we get to spend some quality time with our kids. They are meant to be a sort of  breather for our children, instead we put on them burden of extra classes. Let's give them a break. Let  them explore their  pace and feel the calm.
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