LEAD BY EXAMPLE. ✨Smart Parenting Editor-at-Large Rica Peralejo Shares Tips On How You Can Encourage Kids To Explore The Outdoors. #PopRicaHighlights
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00:00So how do you encourage your kids about going outdoors?
00:03I have a few things that I could share with you in no particular order.
00:07Number one is, and I think this is the most important,
00:10monkey see, monkey do.
00:12So, diba alam na natin yan as parents na whatever we do, our children will copy.
00:18And so if they see even a little bit of discomfort in you in going outdoors,
00:24they will also inherit that.
00:26I think a huge part of like why my kids are game na game,
00:29pag nasa labas kami, is because yung nanay at tatay nila
00:32ang nangunguna sa pagiging masaya when we are outdoors.
00:36And I usually see this as the main problem as well,
00:40because a lot of parents are afraid of discomfort.
00:44And I think it's because lalo na tayo, you know,
00:46we're the generation of yung aircon kids.
00:50Yung nasanay tayo na pinapa-aircon tayo ng mga nanay natin,
00:53di tayo nagagalusan.
00:54Why do I get so many sugats?
00:56You get many sugats because you're so malikot.
00:59Yeah, diba?
01:00So, we have to get over that hump first before we actually expect our children to like it.
01:09Give them a good mix of comfort and challenges.
01:12Kasi syempre, when you go outdoors, agad-agad challenging na yun.
01:15Alam natin yun.
01:16So, bring things that will make it comfortable for them.
01:20So, if they have a favorite.
01:21Blankie food is always, diba kaya kami?
01:24Comfort food, diba?
01:25The number one, syempre, is the parents, no?
01:27But if they have things that make it feel like home to them,
01:31that helps him regulate, especially in newer environments when it feels...
01:36And your books.
01:37Yes, books also.
01:38And last but not the least, I would suggest that you also include them in the planning.
01:44They love it when they know where they're going.
01:46Kids love plans, eh.
01:47I know that it's good to be spontaneous.
01:50I know it's good to train them also to like unpredictable things.
01:54But a certain amount of knowledge of planning is very reassuring to your kids.
01:59Na, this is where we're going.
02:01These are the activities that we want to do.
02:02Kayo, ano yung priority ninyo pag nandun tayo?
02:05Pag kasi, piniprep natin sila ng gano'n, mas ready yung mind nila and their bodies also
02:11to accept the newer environment.