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I never attempted such things as a kid, so can't really comment.
If it did you no harm, perhaps you were simply lucky in that sense.
As for 'anxiety' being 'Children's Word of the Year' in 2021, haven't children pretty much always had anxieties, but were often ignored in previous decades and simply told to 'man up'?
However, I do agree that many people today often tend to disproportionately overestimate potential dangers and risks children could be faced with.
Better get and ban all those climbing frames, water slides, etc. Encouraging risk taking behaviour...
School sports will need scrapping too.
With it being the Indy, I can't read it, so is it hanging upside that's dangerous or eating cheese triangles. Just wondering if the complainant was lactose intolerant
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Of course anxiety is a new thing in children.....and in the past it was a doddle and you didn't need mental health services for children with autism/OCD/anxiety and depression because nothing has been as bad as the devastation and trauma caused by children having time away from school as a result of covid.
Whilst not trivialising the pandemic in any way, surely there were already reports about increases in childrens' anxieties well before the onset of the pandemic, going back well over 15 years or so.
In fact, wasn't there a report from UNICEF back in early 2007 revealing that UK children were the unhappiest and worst off in Europe (or something along those lines IIRC)?
Perhaps (as I already pointed out upthread) childrens' anxieties and feelings in general weren't taken as seriously in previous decades as maybe now, as historically they were expected to just 'put up and shut up', plus many adults often refused to believe many concerns of children (and still do sadly), especially as they're often perceived as pestilent and should be 'seen and not heard'.
But you're not wrong in the sense that this pandemic has caused untold damage to the MH of many kids. And not just the fear of catching Covid and inadvertently ending up in hospital and/or dying of it, but also the constant upheaval and disruptions to their usual routines, e.g, being unable to go to school as normal.
Sorry..I was being sarcastic about the missing school bit.
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Do they still have truant officers or have they all been furloughed? They are probably all redundant now anyway.
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