Dahil isang hamon ang mapanatiling okupado ang mga bata sa bakasyon, tinanong natin ang ina ng apat na bata kung ano ang mga mabuting ideya ng mga libreng aktibidad.
Anong dapat gawin sa mga bata tuwing bakasyon?
Para sa ina at family blogger na si Seana Smith, unang opsyon ay ang pagdala sa kanyang mga anak sa labas.
“Beaches, rivers, lakes and water holes, and you may have to pay to get there if you are driving or on the bus but once you’re there, you’ve got the most beautiful environments where your kids can run around. You need to keep an eye on them, of course, and especially teach them to swim as quickly as possible and follow all the safe swimming guidelines, but these are marvelous places where you can spend whole days outside that really don’t cost anything,” sabi niya.
Sa mga maulan na araw, pumunta sa mga lokal na museo, galerya, community centres, aklatan at mga shopping centres para sa mga libreng aktibidad.
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“Even quite small shopping centres will often put on entertainment for children. The little shopping centre near where I live often has a kindy farm where farm animals come to meet children over school holidays, and other ones can have art and craft for children or even little shows for children. These are free and they’re local so they are pretty easy to get to. Also, most museums, art galleries will often have free activities,” sabi ni Smith.
Rekomenda din niya ang pagpunta sa mga lokal na mga tourist attraction: “Some of the larger tourist attractions have free things. So, for example, the Sydney Opera House has a creative play area where children can go and do arts and craft with teachers there. It’s a drop-in, drop-out sort of arrangement. You just turn up and there are activities to do and things to play with, which is really good.”
Paano kung nagtatrabaho ka?
Hindi lahat ay pwedeng di pumasok sa trabaho. Kaya maaaring sagot dito ang mga programang holiday care tulad ng mga tradisyonal na bakasyong pangangalaga, tennis, paglangoy at sining.
Ipinaliwanag ni Tom Dusseldorp, mula Camp Australia ang kaibahan ng before at after school care sa holiday care: “The difference is it’s far more activity-based. It’s obviously a longer period of time so we operate our hours equal to what we would provide at a school. So, at school, sometimes the sessions can start at 7 am and can finish at around 6 pm so it can be quite a long day that we provide the cover for families but also far more activities, because it is the holidays after all. Kids should be enjoying a break from school and that’s really what we try and create for the holiday period.”
Ang mga ganitong programa ng holiday care ay tumatanggap ng mga bata mula prep hanggang year six kung saan may mga gawain tulad ng sining at kasanayan o mga ekskursyon. Ang holiday care ay nasa $50 hanggang $90 kada araw.
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Pinansyal na suporta para sa holiday care
Ang antas ng suportang gobyerno para sa vacation care ay nababatay sa pinag-isang kita ng pamilya, bilang ng oras ng trabaho ng mga magulang at tipo ng serbisyong kanilang ginagamit.
Habang ang mga pamilyang kumikita ng $66,958 kada taon ay makakatanggap ng 85 porsyento ng childcare na gastos, ang antas ng subsidiya para sa mga pamilya na may kita sa pagitan ng $66,958 to $171,958 ay dahan-dahang bumababa sa 50 porsyento. ang antas ng subsidiya ay higit pang nahuhulog sa mga may malaking kita. Maaaring itanong ito sa Centrelink upang ma-tasa kung karapat-dapat.
Sabi ni Smith nakabenepisyo siya mula sa vacation care dati. Na-enjoy ng kanyang mga lalaking anak ang pagsali sa mga cricket camp sa mga nakaraang bakasyon nila.
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“Lots of parents have got to work and they need to find care for their children and most councils will offer a long day care vacation care for children and that will usually go from 8 till 5:30 or so. So the first port of call is your local council they also tend to be cheaper and you can get child care subsidy through them but other good places are your local tennis courts and I don’t know why but tennis courts seem to offer lots and lots of vacation care and it’s not as expensive as some other ones.”
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