Challenge:-

In these covid times, the major challenge for toddler mummies-especially working from home  mummies/daddies was to engage their toddlers/kids in some sort of activity without compromising  on their daily work- office and household

Tool Selected:- Visualization tool - to engage the kids/ toddlers who cannot go to school or go out or  go for any sport activities/dance activities

Application:- Discussed the toddler and time engagement problem on the company forum-eg-XYZ  company. There were many mothers/fathers in the company facing the same problem of toddler  engagement. All the discussions were done on the forum and a structured power point presentation  was shared with all the parents do make them explain how we intend to engage the toddlers for few  hours. So all the mothers/fathers turn wise would engage all the toddlers on zoom meeting on pre  decided time and schedule - and conduct any activity -like dancing, storytelling, painting, etc. The  time to engage the kids was pre discussed with the respective managers so that 1 particular mommy  was given few hours off from her daily work schedule. So in this exercise, if 30 toddler mummies  participated one mother will have chance only after 30 days. In this way kids will get engaged and all  the mommies will be able to concentrate on their work

Insight:- The zoom meetings were good and effective and gave a relaxation to all mommies to do  their work. But a better planning regarding the topics of engagement considering all the age groups  of kids involved would have been more effective

Approach:- We have tried to improvise on this current model- my first having a complete 1 month or  2 month planners from mommies -what exactly will be the topics covered and of interest for all the  kids involved, exact time duration, break time- for lunch, washroom, which songs/dance will be  covered, what activities the kids can get engaged  (brainstorming sessions within mommy group or  taking the storytelling approach) without the help of mothers or fathers getting involved. So  basically 1 mommy was looking after many kids for few hours -just like security camera--it’s like  having fun -not like online school--but a little party for kids to do whatever they want when 1  mommy would keep an eye over them. One of the difficulty faced with some toddlers was everyday- -a new mommy/daddy would come on board --so that would create an anxiety -which we tried  solving by making sure that for the first 5 minutes the toddlers mommy/daddy would accompany  the child, till the kid was comfortable

