They also started telling on each other more, with the snitch hoping that I will castigate or punish the offender. SOCIAL LIFEHer resistance to his imperious ways almost always ends up with a spat, which has me wondering whether other siblings this age fight or whether it is just my children. This experience with my children has taught me that children, too, are struggling with the changes that have been brought about by this pandemic. Being locked up at home week after week, wrenched from the vibrant social life that school had accorded them, is taking a toll on them, and if parents are not conscious of this they might end up with stressed or even depressed children. WORK TOGETHERResearch has shown that children are, by nature, social beings, and that depriving them of this socialisation might affect their development.

Source: Daily Nation May 03, 2020 07:41 UTC