Dear MEL Topic Readers,
The pandemic generation: How Covid-19 has left a long-term mark on
children
Five years have passed since the COVID-19 outbreak spread around the
world. Many places, including offices, shops, restaurants, and schools, were
shut down for months or even longer. As frontline school teachers have been
witnessing, such social isolation appears to have profound effects on children,
including toddlers. When they were at the age of learning the foundation of
social communication, they were only with a few family members in an isolated space
without interactions with other people or the outside world. Also, as many
school children had to take classes online or from their caregivers for months
or even longer, they missed the opportunities to interact with other students, participate
in school or club activities, and have hands-on learning. Teachers have been
adjusting curricula to help those students catch up with the requirements. Researchers
are studying the social, mental, physical, and economic impacts of the missed
opportunities on the pandemic generation.
Read the article and learn about the impacts of social isolation on
young children during the pandemic.
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