with the whole nation coming to a standstill because of the coronavirus scare parents are facing a tough time keeping their kids engaged within the four walls of the house while some are giving cooking classes to their kids others are resorting to gardening parents in cities across the state shared with us some unique ideas to keep the kids engrossed during this lockdown period some home science for my kidlucknowite ishna agarwal potdar who has a son aged nineyears has made it a point to keep her son engrossed in productive activities during the time of this lockdown she says its very difficult to engage kids these days they cant be allowed to watch television shows or cartoons all the time or be given other gadgets to play with so im teaching vardaan her son to sew buttons ironing small clothes and do other small chores around the house hes also learning gardening from his grandmother and his father is teaching him how to wash the car adding further ishna says im glad that he wakes up in the morning everyday and does yoga along with his grandmother hema bhatia a businesswoman from kanpur is teaching cooking to her 10yearold son prajit i initially started with teaching him how to make tea and some salad now that he has learnt to cut salad i have taught him to make different types of sandwiches what makes me happy is that prajit has also shown a lot interest in cooking she saysl aarav is learning meditation from his parents r devaagyh is learning fireless cooking bccl l aarav is learning meditation from his parents r devaagyh is learning fireless cooking bccldont underestimate the power of yogashubhi tiwari from lucknow a homemaker in the city with a sevenyearold son shivraj says normally we people whine about scarcity of time or the fact that we arent getting to spend quality time with our families now that were following the lockdown everyone is actually getting to complete the list of things which we always wanted to do but never found the time for im teaching my son origami these days along with this he does aerobics and yoga with my husband and me every morning im teaching him how to make tea and since the new school session will start soon hes also learning how to put covers on the books even for prayagrajs sameeksha singh a research scholar managing her two and a half year old son aarav is something she doesnt have to worry about my son had joined a play school recently so after the lockdown the play school has sent some very interesting assignments to be completed by the kidsthe students are supposed to do basic yoga asanas like pranayam etc for which they have sent website links and we in turn have to make a videos of the activity and send to the school the other activity includes talking to the grandparents making a video call colouring etc so