A banal report from the Children’s Commissioner about life in lockdown for NZ kids has a few interesting findings when you dig into it.
By and large, it appears that our kids dealt reasonably resiliently with what the report stupidly claims to be “unprecedented times”
From their survey, half of kids’ parents worked at home and half went out to work – that’s a lot different from the “work from home” message that dominated the perspective of the Government.
Only 8% of kids list the public health messages as a memorable feature of the period.
The absolutely dominant feature and commonality among all kids is that they really missed and disliked the physical separation from their friends, particularly via school. That speaks to a reality of the lives of almost all of us – and something denied by lockdown and social distancing: we simply cannot live for very long separated from each other.