What Can You Do When You Are Stuck At Home?
- Author
- Dr. Niki Saxena and Dr. Eileen Chan
- Published
- Wed 01 Apr 2020
- Episode Link
- None
- Sleep: Get the recommended amount. You have the time now!
- Exercise:
- Check out indoor workouts online or stream them, come up with your own
- Jump rope, planks/burpees, free weights, resistance bands
- Be creative and try to get 60 minutes per day of increased physical activity.
- Go Outside (without crowds)
- Walking, with your dog, rain walk with your kids (puddle stomping)
- go hiking/snowshoeing still practicing social distancing
- Biking
- Gardening, grow vegetables/herbs
- Check out indoor workouts online or stream them, come up with your own
- Self Care: Take care of yourself so you can better take care of others
- Time to work on a healthier diet, real food you have time to prepare, get rid of the junk (see #4)
- Try giving yourself the perfect pedicure, doing a hair mask, reevaluating your closet to have a capsule wardrobe
- Cook up a storm.
- Try new recipes and include your kids.
- Use Every Single Gadget You Have
- Everyone gets to pick a meal they like to share
- look at cooking shows and try out some of their ideas
- Use cooking as a history lesson/learning opportunity
- The h/o the noodle
- Hot dogs
- Get an earthquake kit together, emergency pack, disaster plan
- Have a what-if bag?
- Get your photos onto digital hard drive
- Sort through old photos
- Make an inventory of your house
- Don't try to take on the teacher role
- Things you can do which are educational but are not curriculum based
- This is an amazing opportunity to reconnect with the "real" world if you look at it that way
- Harness compassion for other people rather than feeling sorry for yourself
- Meditate
- Make playlists/share them, listen to something new, have an indoor dance party
- Read a book, audiobooks, start a series (as a family): Harry Potter, Little House on the Prairie, Percy Jackson
- Creative Writing: journaling or start writing a story or graphic novel
- Socializing/ Reconnection: Facetiming
- Organizing: maybe now is the time to finally get those photos organized, scanning files, getting tax info together
- Let your inner child out: encourage your kids to pretend play and then join them in doing that!
- Make a tent inside with a blanket thrown over a table, tell spooky stories by lantern light (as long as this is age appropriate) camp type dinner, S'Mores with your toaster oven/oven
- Picnic inside or in the yard, Candlelight dinner, Breakfast for Dinner
- Wear pajamas all day
- Make a fort with old delivery boxes or a fancy house for your cat
- Puzzles, real board games
- Start to learn a new language.
- See if your kids pick it up faster than you do!
- Teach yourself a new skill
- Practice on that piano, learn to play the guitar
- DIY projects at home
- Learn a new language
- Sewing, knitting [start a virtual knitting circle]
- Hardware stores are open, think about a repair project, DIY paint project, some spring cleaning, TONS of ideas online.
- Start an art project or craft: painting, homemade playdoh, beading, friendship bracelets. Be creative!
- Now that we are making do with less, are there permanent changes you can make to help save our planet?
