found that 30% of 13- to 19-year-olds said they felt unhappy or depressed during COVID-19.Perhaps most concerning,earlier this month found that the proportion of teenagers’ visits to emergency departments for mental health-related reasons jumped by more than 30% from the start of the pandemic through the fall compared to the same period of time the year before.
“I worry,” one parent said in a diary response that was part of the California Partners Project report. “He stays in PJs and seems generally unenthused about everything except food and video games. I told him to get half an hour of sun and he jokingly said, ‘It’s scary outside.’”
And parents are the worst offenders, me included - can’t expect our kids to go all retro and read, play board games etc when we are glued to our phones supposedly doing ‘grown up stuff’ 😁
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