The lockdown was a tough period for both parents who had to work at home and for their kids who suddenly lost all the tiny details of their daily lives from going to school, meeting their friends and exercising.
The conversation will be relaxed, emotional and around the challenges both parents & kids faced and the best practices to beat the stress, boredom and spending endless hours on TV and online.
We will reflect on how to deal with bad feelings from guilt, depression and focus on the bright side of the Pandemic.
The discussion will include discussing the role of the Internet during this period (the advantages from finding creative ideas, learning new skills and finding good educational content AND the disadvantages like the unlimited and un-supervised screen time, negative behavioral effects and the cyber threats)
A piece of art with the best practices and the bright side of COVID-19 will be created during the session using an interactive tool. And a dedicated hashtag for the session will be used to tweet the insights from the session and to keep the momentum afterwards.
The piece of art will be published on Social Media to encourage parents and kids who couldn't attend the session to share their reflections too.
Depending on the number of participants, they will be notified that interventions time will be limited in order to give everyone the chance to speak.
If it's a large number of participants, raising hand will be used to be prioritized in the speaking queue.
And if it will be only a small number of participants, I would unmute everyone and encourage a heartful discussion.
Sharing experience and best practices as COVID-19 caused a difference in our Internet usage behavior during staying at home. The negative energy resulted by the pandemic was invested in both good and not so good ways and was an opportunity to invest in sectors like Mental Health, Life coaching, parenting coaching, home exercising and others, all because of the Internet.
Noha is a Steering Committee Member at the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance and a Storage Engineer at Dell Technologies and works with Dell's University Relations Committee.