‘As homework only fun activities to do with the family’

Rome, 25 March (beraking latest news Salute) – No to homework during the Easter holidays after a year of dad, “let’s give the kids the opportunity for a week to detach themselves physically and mentally from school commitments to be sent online”. This is the appeal launched by the Italian Parents Association (Age) and the Italian Dyslexia Learning Federation (Fida) to all the competent authorities on the subject with a letter sent in these hours under the social hashtag #SalviamolaPasqua !.

The effects of the pandemic – the associations underline in a note – go beyond the number of positives and deaths, and involve the emotional sphere and the psychological balance of everyone, especially children and young people. There are already numerous interventions by pediatricians, psychologists and psychiatrists who have reported more or less serious consequences on the psyches of our minors caused by the excess of distance teaching and the suspension of social relationships that live at school.

This is why Age and Fida ask to give families the opportunity to invent activities to do together, with the sole purpose of rediscovering the well-being of fun and play. As homework for Easter we recommend ‘Fun activities with the family’ – ask the associations -. We assure you that it will be a very important lesson for children, parents and teachers themselves.

“Distance learning requires greater concentration, energy and attention than studying in the classroom, especially for children – explain the presidents Rosaria D’Anna (Age) and Maria Dimita (Fida) -. To aggravate the situation, the hours of Dads are often intensive and exclusively dedicated to the development of the disciplinary program without leaving adequate space for activities in which interactive dialogue with teachers and among the children themselves prevails on the emotional aspects of their experience or on the events in which they are protagonists. they conclude – the tasks that are assigned represent a further and useless reason for stress and cannot be a priority also in consideration of their dubious usefulness ”.