Social Isolation Effects On Children | Special Education Decoded

Social Isolation in children can be devastating! As parents, it's our job to help navigate our current landscape and to constantly balance the desire to keep our children safe from COVID-19, as well as help reduce the risk of long-term effects resulting from isolation!
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A few days ago, a conversation with my daughter sparked a serious concern that I have not been able to shake.
She was telling me about one of her peers from her virtual class.
I asked her if this kid had become her best friend.
I asked this because pre-covid... her list of friends was constantly rotating, and I always tried to keep track.
Her response truly shook me to the core...
She said, "No, dad, I don't have any best friends."
As a father, I saw this conversation as a warning sign.
As if to say... "I'm not happy, but I'm not sure how to express what I'm feeling right now."
That night, I hit the one place I knew COULD have answers... google.
I frantically searched terms like mental health in children, anxiety, depression, effects of isolation, loneliness, and how to help children through depression.
In our family's quest to keep our kid's away from COVID-19... had we accidentally caused more long-term issues?
Would our daughter be able to bounce back into her social life?
With the information I uncovered, I became determined to do a better job of balancing both.
Keeping our kids away from the Coronavirus, but working diligently to ward off any mental health challenges that could easily creep in as a result!
Today, I share the information I found when researching this topic.
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[@Kova-ow2en]

Literally lived like this my entire childhood even after covid. Honestly Covid didn’t change literally anything in my daily life.

[@tinydegrave8786]

my mother overprotected, isolated me, (no contact with other children until 7j, later, nobody was good enough for her, getting breast meant really isolation. NO boys, never go into the front garden in summer,...), she had problems with all the people in the street, 'low folks' (altough she started working at 14 an never read a book or paper, was very limited intellectually... I was her 'genius' doll (sleeping with curlers,...). At school only being the best was good (and I was...luckily?) and only if the rest had seriously lower grades....
My father saw and did nothing.
Now I am a MD and have CPTSD and debilitating anxiety and can't work sinds 9y I am 55 now), probably for the rest of,...
Luckely I have my brains and a very sweet, good psychiater.
Sinds a child I lived in my head, now in books (I am a real nerd), my big plants, my extra safe, rented flat... sometimes a cours at the university, lectures.
But I never understood how kids, people can play, talk for hours about 'nothing'= socializing. But they say I am kind, helpful, truly interested but it is just that even after 10 min of contact I get anxious, just by contact with others.
Luckely my antidepressant takes the scharpness away, and in need (only then ) I have my Valium (prescribed NOT myself as a MD but by my psychiater, low dose, that I can adjust to the situation. For instance, breaking down of my cell phone, laptop, stupid thing often I really panick, because I have to go out and deal with salespeople,....Or people who are just so, too nice... Crazy.
But overall I manage well (my braines never left me) and somehow I am happy with my nerdy books, movies nobody watches,...and people can always ask me to do something for them, but don't get to close!!!
Oh, and I take care of my demented, racist, egotistical, very toxic, narcistic mother (sinds a few months in a home), because , hey that is just me... I can't see anyone in pain or in panick, even if they hurted me sooooo much, even now (not so much anymore now!). Because I know what it is the have fear, really fear as a todler even, because of the acting and words of my mother.
SIGH, I thinck I am nuts (silent laugh)

[@cynicalandrealistic2678]

What are vocational skills because I get vocational skills and I'm in special education