HOW WE ENJOYED SUMMER VACATION ACTIVITIES WITH OUR CHILDREN

HOW WE ENJOYED SUMMER VACATION ACTIVITIES WITH OUR CHILDREN 

Dear Parents,

I understand your concern as to how to enjoy summer vacation activities with your children. (Of course, you are also worried how to keep your children busy in the summer vacation, I know !)

Let me share my own experiences of how we enjoyed summer vacation activities with our children.

As responsible parent, I felt that it is our primary responsibility to make every effort possible so that the personality of the  children,considering their age factor, do bloom, flourish to the fullest. 

After all, the mother nature expects us to do the same.

TINY FLOWERS FLOURISHED TO THE FULLEST !

The above photograph is taken on my mobile while on Europe tour.  The cute tiny flowers have flourished to the fullest.  We can see the tiny buds also in the process.  

It is obvious that these tiny plant is being taken care of regularly. 

I often see strong analogy here.  We parents also are duty bound to take care of our children, monitor their growth, attend to them at emotional needs.  

Protect them from the harsh realities of life. 

And this is more so in the summer vacation as in the rest of the period the busy schedules of both children and parents make it difficult to get time for the same.

Therefore, summer vacation is the best opportunity one should not miss.

HOW WE ENJOYED SUMMER VACATION ACTIVITIES WITH OUR CHILDREN 

We always preferred to encourage our children to enjoy outdoor activities - outdoor games, like football, cricket etc.

We made it sure they get exposure in the pleasant morning and evening sunlight.

They were taught how to appreciate beauty of the nature, sunrise, sunset, expansive trees etc.

BEAUTIFUL TREE !

This also enabled us to explain to the children what it means to refer to the nature as the mother nature. 

HOW WE ENJOYED SUMMER VACATION ACTIVITIES WITH OUR CHILDREN 

This is the area where we paid more attention.  

This is the duration when we introduced them to various activities that have potential to become a great hobby for them.  

For example, drawing, painting,reading.

In this regard, we were well aware that we parents are the role model for our children, of course  after their teacher. 

Fortunately, we do have interesting and significant hobbies of quality reading. 

We need not emphasize here that quality reading proves a great source of wisdom of life one needs to lead a healthy,peaceful and meaningful life.

Another important thing we encouraged our children was to make them aware of the hard and stressful life people live - the newspaper vendor, the laundryman, the sweeper in the  housing society,the cobbler at the corner of the road, the laborers working on the road, and so on. 

The children were encouraged to look at these members of our society with compassion and humanity and respect their work because indirectly they are serving the society.

Our main purpose always was to give them opportunities to learn some thing new, learn more about the mother nature, the harsh realities of life, and never miss any opportunity to be curious and be always positive in attitude.

HOW WE ENJOYED SUMMER VACATION ACTIVITIES WITH OUR CHILDREN 

Now, I will not hesitate to state here that all our above efforts proved helpful on the path of achieving overall personality development of our children besides their academic achievements !

Of course, all the above activities to do in summer vacation were not conducted  in a single summer vacation.

I have shared my experience with our children with a hope that the same will prove helpful to other parents and their children also.

Next time ........