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Is your toddler always glued to a mobile phone or iPad? Well, this is something that cannot be done away with unless you spend individual attention with your kid. You must look for engaging and fun-loving ways of taking care of your children. Let me introduce 6 fun-loving ways how you can take care of your toddlers using fun-loving ways:

1. Read a book

If you have a look at it, kids always learn by example. When you want your children to be avid book readers, you can inculcate the habit at a very young age. Try reading short stories or nursery rhymes. You get ‘Read-along’ books or large print books you can read from.

You can always give touch-and-feel books to your children. They touch the characters and visualize the story or the rhyme you narrate to them. This way, you improve the cognitive thinking abilities of your toddlers. They observe, touch, feel and learn new words.

2. Allowing them to paint pictures

By allowing your tiny tots to indulge in dabbling with paints, you allow them to heighten their levels of imagination and creativity by leaps and bounds. Allow them to paint their favourite characters from their nursery rhyme book or storybook.

Allow them to use paints of their choice. This freedom can help them think and analyze. Their visual and analytical skills therefore improve. In this way, you go a great length in helping them shape up as better individuals.

3. Invest in learning or DIY kits

When you allow your children to participate in doing D_I_Y (Do-It-yourself), the materials form part of the learning kits. ‘For your princess, you have ‘Beauty Salon kits. Here, the nail paints and artificial nails are added to the kit.

Your girls can apply nail polish on their nails and attach the same to their Barbie dolls. Similarly, you can gift trendy sand play kits for your boys wherein they caricature their superheroes like Snowman, Batman or Superman. A fun way to indulge your kids in over mindless hours of allowing them to stay on their i-pads or phones!

4. Stacking games

You can provide stacking games so that your kids learn how to stack up objects. Keep a set of cups and allow them to make pyramids or bridges. This way, you help your teeny-weens shape up their organizing skills.

You can allow them to stack up their teddies or fun dolls too. They must then keep their belongings in their respective spots. Stackable games can keep your kids on their feet for an endless number of hours without them having their phones on.

5. Musical chairs

Playing musical chairs with your toddlers can involve a fast-paced and interactive game plan for your kids. You must have a playlist on your computer drive or your iPod. Play musical notes and quickly stop them.

You sit on the chair and allow your kid to do so. Remove the dining chairs one by one. See how quickly your kid can find his/her chair when the music is off. While the music is on, the kid and you run behind the chairs.

6. Allow them to dance

Dancing is a wonderful way to improve the fitness levels of your children. You can play the YouTube videos and follow the steps the dance instructors are doing for TikTok or other videos. While you do so, you can find your kids getting into the groove too.

By allowing them to dance, you help improve the confidence levels of your kids. You also help them improve their body language. This goes a long way while they may have to sit for job interviews to carry dream offer letters of their choice.

Concluding Lines to Remember

These are the top 6 ways in which you can indulge your kids in activities other than having them look at their phone or tab screens 24/7. You can allow them to do fireless cooking. You can make them arrange flowers inside vases.

Or, you can help them paint on fabrics or curtain covers. There are several ways by which you can keep your kids preoccupied instead of having them look at their blue screens all the time. 

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