After December's explosive metush comes the honest modesty of January.

After December's explosive metush comes the honest modesty of January. This is a time to reboot, take a break, a time to stop, and look inward. But it is difficult to stop - the trumpet calls, worries come. How to find the strength to slowly return to business without splashing the charge of December magic?

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It is still not possible to shake yourself forcibly, it is useless to fight the warm fluffy sensations, pulling the body out of hibernation means going against its nature. But the surprising thing is that if you allow yourself to sway a little more on the waves of post-holiday grace, soon things will quarrel by themselves, there will be a need for activity, and the previous rhythms will be restored faster and more logically than if we restored them through strength. Therefore, oddly enough, most often the answer to the question above is hidden in the philosophy "the less, the better."

Less leads to more: more satisfaction, ease, peace, less confusion, angst, fatigue, and self-destruction.

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But what about grandmothers, grades, and self-development? No way. All this will be in time in February, when the aftertaste of the holiday disappears and you want to fill the days with something else besides pies and candles. You will be surprised how much there is in these pies of everything important, necessary, and obligatory in education.

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Go to the library, play board games, watch bird behavior, cook together, read aloud (and watch films based on these books), draw and write (in italics if you want to boo) thank you cards for grandmothers.

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Believe it or not, the list above is enough for reading, science, history, literature, math, calligraphy, essay. Even doing one thing a day is enough to fill a whole month with useful and stress-free activities. The rabbit tracks alone on the way to the library are worth something! I'm not talking about chemistry and math during the culinary marathons. The most important thing here is that you do not need to invent anything on purpose, observe the child or, in extreme cases, ask him what he would like to do, and allow yourself for this transitional month to be taken away to the magical land of his why, how, and why. Or maybe stay there forever.