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Of all the existing media data on Covid, a life-made story went almost unnoticed last week.The Children’s Society has published its annual Good Childhood report, which shows that young people in the UK are the most dissatisfied in Europe.
Your “high satisfaction in life” score is 64%; the highest degrees of “satisfaction with life” are discovered in Romania, with 85%, followed by France, Spain and Finland.I don’t know much about Romania, but it not only makes me feel like a source of joy, yet – thanking – your young friends much happier than ours.Basically, there are twice as many unfortunate 15-year-olds in Birmingham or Edinburgh as in Bucharest.How is that possible?
Of course, everything was aggravated by the pandemic. Not being able to go to school, which might have seemed like such a joyful resonance at first, has had, unsurprisingly, a negative effect on the intellectual fitness of our other young people: not seeing their friends; being locked up with your parents; all canceled activities; your ruined social life; increased exposure to the horrors of social media, and all this, for 15-year-olds, to the point where their friends are so important and their parents (well, for many) are so hard to perceive even if they remain indispensable.However, and I am not a statistician, suppose that the effect of the pandemic was observed very similarly throughout Europe as Covid took care of his business.
The report suggests that there is a British tension point in the minds of our young other young people: a specific concern for the failure that ails them.The kind of things we can more easily associate with countries like Japan or South Korea.where parents’ expectations appear well above and where educational achievements are perceived as a key reference in the life story of each and every individual.
Other young people in these countries have high levels of stress, but of course they also get control effects that are among the most productive in the world.To be honest, I would prefer our young people to be satisfied and confident than dissatisfied and well.Qualified, but dissatisfied and average is not a useful combination for the nation.
Beautiful meaningless icons
So, for the unfortunate third, what happened? Can we point the hand in all sorts of directions Are those social networks, all the places where young people can laugh at each other all night, while their victim is alone in bed in front of a screen they can’t turn off?An exposure to celebrity, with all the promise of unsatisfactory lifestyles experienced through charming but meaningless icons?
Is it parenting: Some parents are too tough, too soft, too protective, too ambitious, too far away, too close, too concerned, too under pressure themselves? Have we spoiled the child? To what extent is this simply due to poverty? Isn’t Romania poorer? And what can we be informed of the life of the 64% happy, because we cannot bless them, while they navigate with a smile on their face, probably just to treat some or all of those points and manage them.
The lives of other young people in Britain in 2020 are so complicated, in a way that most of us, let’s call it the 1950s, cannot do it in our own childhood. Margaret Mead, the American cultural anthropologist who wrote “Coming of Age in Samoa,” “idea that too many possible options made teenagers depressing and that our other young people actually had many possible options.
Happy and confident
Think about watching TV. In 1965, my circle of relatives was lucky enough to have a TV, slowly warming up at 5pm each night, when it’s possible to decide on a channelArray…or another. Today, with many young people having a TV in their room, or on their phone, or on their iPad, they have thousands of possible selections and browse them constantly, without even settling down: and this is just their selection, because for many, their parents and siblings monitor their possible possible selections in other rooms that might well be on Mars.And there are drugs and pornography and always, always, the heartbeat to search Snapchat for the right message from the right person.In addition to climate change, Brexit and Trump and, right now, Grandma trapped in a nursing home.
I’m very satisfied to be young when I’m young. To be honest, I don’t think he’s ever looked at my teenage self, maybe confused, maybe immature, maybe very silly, and found me under pressure.
Whatever the cause, misfortune, tension and anxiety of our other young people is an epidemic, perhaps even more complicated to manage than the one you’ve been devouring lately. When this specific virus settles in, it deals with all the sadness of our other young youth.He’ll have priority for the government.
We want to know why this is happening and then start the processes that will make our other young people feel satisfied and confident. Wait a minute, “safe individuals”? Isn’t that something the excellence program has set out to foster, one of the “four capabilities”? In any case, our schools have a vital role to play in achieving this, and I hope the Holyrood government sees the desire to create the right research organization to find out how we can deal with all this misery.
Cameron Wyllie is in www.ahouseinjoppa.wordpress.com
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