Will social distancing or being away from school harm child development or educational progress? With a recent study by the Educational Policy Institute (EPI) revealing that mental health problems in children are on the rise since the start of the pandemic (from 1 in 9 to 1 in 6 in children aged 5-16), how worried should we be about our children?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/is-the-pandemic-affecting-childrens-development