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The pandemic was a big hit on the development of kids who were supposed to start kindergarten but stayed at home instead. They are on average less social and ve

The pandemic was a big hit on the development of kids who were supposed to start kindergarten but stayed at home instead. They are on average less social and verbal as a result. I hope they can recover the delay as I am the father of a 3 year old. I bet a similar delaying effect is happening for adolescent kids who would have started being interested in the opposite sex but all they could do was Zoom into virtual lectures while being alone.

smt88 5y ago
> I bet a similar delaying effect is happening for adolescent kids who would have started being interested in the opposite sex but all they could do was Zoom into virtual lectures while being alone. So in your opinion, attending class is about finding a heterosexual romantic partner? I know lots of teenagers had virtual lectures, but I don't know any teenagers who were 100% socially isolated from their peers for very long.
- visarga 5y ago
  The age, not attending classes, is about having the first romantic experiences. And there were months of lock downs and almost two years of remote schooling cutting the opportunities to meet people.
  - smt88 5y ago
    They still did those things. School isn't the only place kids socialize.
    - lazyasciiart 5y ago
      Movie theaters, shops, sports leagues, boy scouts, etc were also closed.
yed 5y ago
The study in this post finds that to be not true (emphasis mine): > Overall, we find that measured verbal, non-verbal, and overall cognitive scores are significantly lower since the beginning of the pandemic. Looking further, we find that children born before the pandemic and followed through the initial stages do not show a reduction in skills or performance, but rather that young infants born since the beginning of the pandemic show significantly lower performance than in- fants born before January 2019. Thus, our results seem to suggest that early development is impaired by the environmental conditions brought on by the pandemic.

smt88 5y ago

> I bet a similar delaying effect is happening for adolescent kids who would have started being interested in the opposite sex but all they could do was Zoom into virtual lectures while being alone. So in your opinion, attending class is about finding a heterosexual romantic partner? I know lots of teenagers had virtual lectures, but I don't know any teenagers who were 100% socially isolated from their peers for very long.

visarga 5y ago
The age, not attending classes, is about having the first romantic experiences. And there were months of lock downs and almost two years of remote schooling cutting the opportunities to meet people.
- smt88 5y ago
  They still did those things. School isn't the only place kids socialize.
  - lazyasciiart 5y ago
    Movie theaters, shops, sports leagues, boy scouts, etc were also closed.

yed 5y ago

The study in this post finds that to be not true (emphasis mine): > Overall, we find that measured verbal, non-verbal, and overall cognitive scores are significantly lower since the beginning of the pandemic. Looking further, we find that children born before the pandemic and followed through the initial stages do not show a reduction in skills or performance, but rather that young infants born since the beginning of the pandemic show significantly lower performance than in- fants born before January 2019. Thus, our results seem to suggest that early development is impaired by the environmental conditions brought on by the pandemic.