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Fears children born during lockdown are years behind as they start at school
- flobosg 2y agoUnedited title: ‘They’re about two years behind’: fears for children born during lockdown as they start at school
- elevatedastalt 2y agoI mean they can at worst be only 4 years behind
- dent9876543 2y agoI think you perhaps meant to be pedantic and ironically trite. But imagine being 4 years behind when you hit secondary/senior school. Either the child has to adjust and catch up (but it's a /lot/ to catch up), or the school system has to adjust to accommodate (which is far from easy).
- itronitron 2y ago[flagged]
- sameoldtune 2y agoWhat do you find problematic with that phrase?
- pfannkuchen 2y agoNot GP but the idea that babies are affected by whether the adults have a wide range of experiences is pretty stupid IMO. Now if we are talking about 10 or 15 year olds then of course it matters.
- defrost 2y agoMany people with a wide range of experience parsed that sentence as: Ideally babies need { A }, and have a broad range of experiences Further, " many different people " includes adults, teenagers, preteens, and barely speaking post babies.
- pfannkuchen 2y agoThat’s fair, I had better go collect some more varied experiences.
- itronitron 2y agoThe exposed to many different people requirement is problematic. Is 'many' more than five, ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, one hundred?
- rolandr 2y agoI’m not seeing how you are getting there from that quote. Seems like one of the least controversial sentences in the article. Maybe it would be better to say “should” instead of “need?” In any event the overall point is pretty sound. Even with dogs, if they are not well socialized when younger, they end up having problems interacting well/appropriately with new dogs and people.
- rich_sasha 2y agoIt is all blamed on lockdowns, and I'm sure they had an effect. Speech or hearing issues went undiagnosed and untreated, for example. But surely talking to any adult would do most of the job. All these children brought up by one foreign-speaking parent who end up speaking that language fluently show that. Were these "lockdown children" just left on their own? Or is it indicative that their parents don't talk to them, and their only language learning happened outside of home?
- petermcneeley 2y agoI am sure many of these children got expose to language outside of the home; Youtube.
- Thegn 2y agoI don’t have a source now, but a while ago (pre-pandemic) I saw a study that showed babies don’t pick up basic language structures very well at all from videos for whatever reason.
- llamaimperative 2y agoPresumably from lack of relevant context (i.e. relevance to the child's own needs/sensory experience) and lack of trial and error. Similarly you can't learn to write code very well from watching videos of someone watching code, especially when they're not trying to teach code through the video.
- gus_massa 2y agoMy daughter used to speak a mix of es-as, es-es and es-mx (and perhaps a some more) from YouTube. Now she is going back to normal and speaking mostly in es-ar.
- yarg 2y agoTalking with (or listening to) adults is the primary way that children learn to speak - but that's far from the only thing that these children have been deprived of. The social understanding that children develop by playing with other children is vital as well, and hanging out with other dirty little snot-faced kids is a hugely important part of developing a robust immune system.
- bamboozled 2y agoOur friends child was born on a farm, isolated during covid, he is 4 and his parents often say that it's affected his development quite a bit compared to their other kids.
- alanbernstein 2y agoI would think the kids who should have started kindergarten in 2020 would be the most affected.
- dsr_ 2y agoEveryone in US public schooling from 2020 through 2023, really.
- Ferret7446 2y agoAnecdotally, this affected everyone, all the way up through college (though the "damage" of the college students is less permanent since it didn't affect brain development as much).
- tester89 2y agoIs the population diagnosed with autism about to explode in a decade?
- Spooky23 2y agoThat’s going to happen no matter what. It’s a hot diagnosis that yields alot of services. It is to 2024 what ADD was to 1994.
- snskddjn 2y ago[flagged]
- Der_Einzige 2y agoYes, but people here get very angry when you point this out.
- bitlax 2y ago[flagged]