How to have a good summer - looking for a balance between business and leisure

Parents, just like children, are exhausted by the school year, and they also need a full vacation. After all, from September to May they, in fact, are also immersed in school worries, while still working and earning money. Therefore, first of all, the parent needs to think about himself and think of ways to rest.

Anastasia Yakushevskaya

psychologist and academic director of the online school for children and teenagers Skysmart

Tells about ways to spend vacations with benefit for children and adults.

How to rest for adults

Lying on the couch and doing nothing is a more difficult task than it seems. Because if you lie down, but at the same time read the news, correspond in Telegram, watch videos on your smartphone, it doesn’t count anymore. We are constantly in tension and involved in something.

In summer, our task is to release this tension: to catch the excitement in the moment by playing board games, to shout at a sports match, to laugh and cry with the characters of our favorite TV series, to do sports or yoga. To truly relax, you need not do nothing, but switch, form new neural connections, that is, look at the world from a completely different angle.

Try to arrange a day that is radically different from your usual routine. It is important to treat your vacation not as a useless endeavor, but as an investment in yourself and your health. And investment is a process that needs to be planned.

If you have children, there is no better time to distract yourself from your worries by immersing yourself in leisure time with your child.

These are trips to museums and science centers, and reading books not only on the school curriculum, and a trip to a language camp, and interactive educational games, online courses, creative workshops … You can study anything.

Studies show that 75% of children would love to learn financial literacy. More than half of high school students would like to learn writing, and 57% of 10 to 14 year olds would love to learn video blogging.

According to the survey, children are also interested in programming, English, animation and computer graphics, marketing, legal literacy, yoga, and dance. You can enroll the whole family in online summer English courses and do together what you used to put off so often because of work.

Even if you are financially or time constrained, you can still provide yourself and your family with interesting educational activities. For example, a day trip out of town. Build an itinerary together, make a travel plan and a list of necessities.

Let your child choose where and what you will eat, what sights you will visit. Show your child that knowledge does not end in the pages of textbooks – it is all around us.