Posted on 02/11/2021 9:45:45 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
While many kids would probably say they loved not going to school for a year during the coronavirus pandemic, their parents see a bigger problem with 2020’s quarantine. A new survey finds seven in 10 parents believe spending a year in lockdown will have a lasting impact on their child’s growth and development.
The OnePoll survey of 2,000 parents with children between two and 18 years-old looked at what parents are saying about their kids after spending the majority of 2020 cooped up inside. Of the 69 percent who say they’re worried about their children in lockdown, the top concern is that it’ll be more difficult for their child to connect with people in-person in the future (52%).
Commissioned by The Genius of Play, the survey reveals parents also feel it’ll be more difficult for their child to play (44%) or make friends (44%) after being separated from their peers for so long. Another 68 percent of the parents believe their child’s social skills were stunted as a result of spending much of 2020 in isolation. It turns out isolation is a major problem parents have identified during the pandemic.
More than seven in 10 parents (72%) also believe, during 2020, their child was lonelier than ever before. In fact, 58 percent of parents said they were also lonelier than ever. Overall, 79 percent of parents feel 2020 was the most difficult year ever for their family. Another 65 percent say that parenting was harder than in any other year...
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If you think the public school improves your kid’s social skills, I have a bridge to sell you.
Social skills are the responsibility of parents.
“Social skills are the responsibility of parents.”
To a large extent yes.
But social skills are also developed by people interacting in society, of which schools, for better or worse, are a part.
Funny.
My kids’ social skills have improved out of the sewer of modern education, but the skills they go to school for are in the toilet.
It was damaged long before that. One can find cartoons from 5-10 years ago of kids sitting right across from each other at a burger place, and texting instead of talking.
I think twitter and facebook probably did more damage.
More than seven in ten kids don't have enough siblings.
My son is a real social butterfly, always having fun with his friends, he is away at college and says he is sad at not seeing and hanging out with his friends. Not sure it has changed his social skills but he is certainly feeling a little lonely. Talking with him on the phone he does sound a bit down.
Paging Captain Obvious. Pick-up on the red phone.
No sale
It’s because parents don’t interact with their kids.
In history kids lived isolated lives. They homeschooled. Parents talked to them.
Parents are constantly trying to get out of being with
Their kids. As soon as a married woman HHS’s a pregnancy in my experience she is looking for someone to take care of the child. Getting a cage (crib) set up. Lining up Day care mother/mother
In law pre school.
Then off to school. The kids come home and park in front of some electronic
No problem. Re-education camps will make social skills unnecessary. Fealty to the party line will be all that’s required.
What in the heck would those parents know...they put their kids in public school.
They should be arrested for child abuse.
Homeschooled, my social life was mostly with older kids — my parents.
I still prefer older people. Even the forgetful ones are better educated than my millennial peers and even the dotty ones are more balanced. Generally speaking.
Elderly men aren’t afraid to flirt or hold the door for me, and they watch their language.
Elderly women fuss over me and don’t treat me like competition.
As to their values and perspective, there’s simply no contest.
I often feel bad for people my age. So many can’t read well, speak well, tell time, make change, cross a street safely, look where they’re going, vote sensibly or walk a dog on a leash.
What social skills? They have their noses in their phones 24/7/365.
I moved my daughter to private Christian high school last summer which opened in hybrid pretty quickly so she wasn’t as affected.
But my senior son wanted to stay with his public high school. He wanted to graduate with his peers. I should have pulled him also last summer, in retrospect. I never dreamed they’d stay in remote this long. They still are, to this day. Likely all the rest of this year.
His grades tanked last fall and he became a shell of his former self with “remote learning.” He was withering on the vine and bored and wasting his time too.
I pulled him in Dec, after 5 Fs and 2 Ds, he got two part time jobs, and is now homeschooling. He is much happier and healthier now.
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