The practice of training children must be followed
Jakarta – The Indonesian Kid Security Commission (KPAI) asked for parents to train children in using health procedures to prevent transmission of numerous illness, including COVID-19, as a preventive procedure in the new typical era amidst the pandemic.
” The practice of training children need to be followed,” KPAI Commissioner for Education, Retno Listyarti told ANTARA in Jakarta on Friday.
Listyarti highlighted the requirement to train kids to familiarize them to follow a tidy and healthy way of life and inculcate habits, consisting of wearing masks and routinely washing hands with soap to avoid the spread of diseases, consisting of COVID-19
” Wearing masks needs training. For this reason, children must be trained on properly to use masks. Start by making them use (masks) for 30 minutes and after that increase the time by 10 minutes every day. Hence, when they go back to school, the children are accustomed to using masks for a longer time period,” she explained.
In addition to the value of using masks as part of their daily lives, children likewise require to be edified on the primary objective behind wearing masks as a need in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, so they do not take them off while engaging in outside activities.
” Children should be made aware of the value of using masks for self-protection around people, who sneeze, cough, and fall ill, to prevent spread of the disease,” she reiterated.
Furthermore, kids need to be regularly advised to clean their hands with soap to prevent transmission.
” Parents ought to not simply remind them to wash their hands, however they should likewise teach them the right handwashing techniques. If essential, an alarm can be set to advise them to wash their hands,” she mentioned.
These practices must be instilled or engrained in children earlier to make sure that they can be much better prepared to adapt to the new regular situation when they return back to school or while interacting with others.
” They should be prepared. Moms and dads ought to prepare their kids to deal with (the pandemic). Teach them, inform them, and design them,” Listyarti specified.
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