It has been a trying time for our children and their resilience can naturally begin to wane after over a hundred days of lockdown. IOL_Lifestyle SchoolsMustShutdown
Enough said about parents! What about our children? Surely they have also been quite in limbo during this time – with the added pressures of being home and trying to work in an environment that is usually a comfortable space that has now automatically been transformed into one of study, play and sleep.
It has been a trying time for our children also and their resilience can naturally begin to wane after over a hundred days of lockdown. Burn-out in children is real! We often do not reflect on this topic – because the focus is usually on how children adapt so easily to pick themselves up and move on. Yet, at the same time, over a prolonged period of difficulties, children do have the human tendency of burn-out.As defined by study, burn-out is an exhaustion syndrome, characterized by feeling overwhelmed; physical and emotional exhaustion.
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