Minister of Social Affairs Risma: Don’t Let the Covid-19 Pandemic Make Children Grow Up with Selfish Traits

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Tri Rismaharini said that growth and development children severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Learning activities at home, including various restrictions on activities, make children less excited.

“Many then wake up at noon because they don’t need to go to school and mothers change their patterns of life,” said Tri Rismaharini in a webinar on Social Protection in Covid-19 Response: Protection and Inclusive Social Services, Jakarta, Tuesday (23/3/2021).

This distance learning model is also often used children while working on something. Starting from while taking a shower, waking up at noon, eating and so on. Not only that, many parents also complained about their children being bored because they had to be in the house.

“Then after all this time, the kids got bored,” he said.

For this reason, when he was still Mayor of Surabaya, the local government worked with local television stations to schedule lessons according to the school schedule as usual. In addition, during the distance learning process, children also required to wear school uniforms.

On this policy, Risma claimed that parents of students in Surabaya responded positively. Even though they are still learning from home, their children are more enthusiastic and wake up early for school.

“It turns out that what happened then the parents responded on social media childrenenthusiastic and they take a shower in the morning, dressed in uniform at home, “he said.

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