1. Prepare a timetable 
It may sound odd, but if you prepare a timetable for your child, you may be able to make out how many hours does your child spend on the screen. Allot a specific time for online games and try to stick to it. Don’t give into the child’s demands easily.

2. Check school homework daily
Your child gets enough homework and projects from school. Some of the best cbse schools in Ahmedabad provide homework regularly and parents should monitor their child’s school work. Check whether they have been submitted or not. Follow-up with the child to ensure that assignments are submitted on time.

3. Reading time
Make reading mandatory at home. It can be anything from the daily newspaper, kindle books, children’s magazines or any science fiction or adventure stories. You can also visit the school during the school hours and get the books issued from the school’s library. Zebar School provides Times NIE daily to each student. Check connecting millions and motivate your child to read it.

4. Cultivate hobbies in your child
Give them new books, paints, puzzles, crosswords to solve. If your child loves reading, encourage your child to buy new books to read. Follow your child’s favourite author and buy the newly launched books.

5. Board Games
Bring board games back at home. You can use Chess, Ludo, Carrom Board or Scrabble. Sit with your child and try to play at least twice a week.

6. Household chores
Assign your child simple household tasks like filling up water bottles, organising the room or watering the plants. Appreciate the child if the job is finished.

7. Weekends Special
Make each weekend special. Take them on long drives, sit with them and ensure that their classwork and homework are finished. Find out what they have accomplished in the week. Plan a family cooking session; children love baking. If not baking, you can teach them to make sandwiches and juices every weekend.

8. Stop mindless scrolling on your screen
Children lead by example. If you stop checking your social pages on weekends, children will get more attention and shall follow you. Never talk to a child while you are checking your phone; it gives them a negative signal. Always keep the phone aside and talk to your child.

9. Create bedtime rituals
Bedtime rituals are necessary as it helps the children to maintain a sleep cycle. Don’t allow children to play video games late at night. Make it a point to switch off the lights at 10 pm.

10. No Gadget Hour
Introduce your children to a ‘No Gadget Hour’ trend. It is a new trend catching up fast in Western countries. All you must do is fix a family time when no one touches the gadgets for that particular time. You can initially start with one hour daily in the evening and slowly move on to two hours. Appreciate and reward your child if they follow it. Make the reward exciting and creative for the child. It can be anything like ordering for an ice-cream treat or playing with them.

Zebar School is a leading school in Ahmedabad with students coming from all walks of life. Backed by Udgam consultancy the school has grown by leaps and bounds in a short time of four years.

It is coincidentally one of the most sought after schools for admissions too as many parents who come to Ahmedabad after a transfer or feel to change their child’s school inquire about Zebar. While some schools in the city offer a gamut of facilities, Zebar stands out for the flexibility and support it gives to its parent community.
Flexibility in terms of academics, students are given assistance be it in the form of worksheets, notes, practice question papers and videos. They receive guidance from teachers and extra classes in the form of doubt, solving sessions and remedial classes.
Due to this crisis in 2020, the school has given free access to Extramarks to each student. Apart from Extramarks, students received free access to Byju’s for two months, complimentary MS Office and digital library.
All these additional facilities give parents complete peace of mind as they don’t have to spend on other overheads like reference books, tuitions and online subscriptions during these testing times.
Parents are provided mental, emotional and financial assistance by the school management. The school counselling department provides mental and emotional support as parents of Zebar are entitled to free counselling and guidance services by the school. They can speak to the school counsellor or grievance redressal officer for any difficulty parents are facing while raising their child at home.
The school conducts free webinars of many varying topics like parenting, health, nutrition and career guidance for students and parents.
The management has come up with several new ideas to help parents and their families. The school is currently offering a monthly fee facility to all parents. Apart from this to further support the parents, the school accepted the Government Resolution and decreased the annual tuition fees by 25%.
Zebar School has also launched one of its kind campaign where parents can feel relieved and can continue their child’s education. The campaign ‘Support a Parent’ invites parents from financially sound backgrounds to sponsor the education of those students whose parents are facing liquidity issues.

This noble initiative by the school also caught the media’s attention. Let’s have a look at the online reports published by various media houses in the city.

The procedure to avail of benefits under this campaign is effortless. Parents need to share their child’s name with the class teachers. Names of the parents who can help or who need help will remain strictly confidential. Many parents have welcomed this initiative. It will give a lift to especially those parents who have incurred huge losses during this year or have spent a lot of money on medical expenses of their family members.