I do research with babies and young children and this sounds similar to what I've seen too - in terms of social interaction and language skills. Things do seem to be improving now though (post lockdown babies).
The HART reported a 20% fall in the performance of children aged 3 months to 3 years and Ofsted report of Spring 2022 listed a series of alarming declines eg --in ability wrt speech, walk socialisation. independence.
Definitely. The difference was adults, no matter their circumstances, rich, poor, employed, unemployed and all the other myriad of possibilities, could understand what was going on, (sort of) whether they agreed with it or not. But not children, they're empty vessels taking everying in and trying to make sense of it all, but we let them down, badly
Thank you for sharing your experiences, even if I was in turns crying and raging at the damage done to our kids.
I do research with babies and young children and this sounds similar to what I've seen too - in terms of social interaction and language skills. Things do seem to be improving now though (post lockdown babies).
That’s good to hear that things seem to be improving for post lockdown babies. We’d love to hear about your research.
The HART reported a 20% fall in the performance of children aged 3 months to 3 years and Ofsted report of Spring 2022 listed a series of alarming declines eg --in ability wrt speech, walk socialisation. independence.
Definitely. The difference was adults, no matter their circumstances, rich, poor, employed, unemployed and all the other myriad of possibilities, could understand what was going on, (sort of) whether they agreed with it or not. But not children, they're empty vessels taking everying in and trying to make sense of it all, but we let them down, badly
We did, didn’t we. We need to make sure we make it up to them.