Many young people struggling to juggle everything after lockdown

4 days, 8 hours ago

‘Hung Up’ parents put kids on ‘Hold’

Smartphones have become our constant companions, whether for work, social media, or just mindless scrolling. What might seem like a harmless habit could have lasting effects on family dynamics and, ultimately, on children’s social and emotional development?Family DynamicsAs smartphones take centre stage, face-to-face interactions are taking a backseat. A 2023 report by Pew Research Centre found that 56% of parents …

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1 month ago

Decoding teenagers: What they really expect from parents and life

Hindustan Times

Teenagers' life seem to change daily as they learn about new things, seek new experiences and learn to find solutions to different problems they face during their teenage life. The parent-teen dynamic: How to foster trust and harmony Navigating teen life: As teenagers seek to define their place in the world, parents and caregivers must recognise their changing expectations and …

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2 months ago

Online training programme for teenagers and their parents on Nov 9-10

The Hindu

In a bid to equip teenagers with essential life skills and positive mindset, MiTran Global’s Positive Mind Mastery workshop will offer an online programme for young individuals and their parents on November 9 and 10. The Positive Mind Mastery workshop would recognise youngsters’ individuality through methods like ‘Brain Dominance and Learning Behavior Assessment’. As a key takeaway from the programme, …

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Rise of the 'Kidults': An obsession with wellbeing in schools, crying rooms at universities - here's why so many young people are eschewing adult life for an adolescence that stretches into their 30s

Daily Mail

Are you, like me, fed up with being treated like a child, talked down to and patronised by a contemporary culture that wants to infantilise us? It’s seen in the ‘safe spaces’ and ‘crying rooms’ that are the embarrassing by-products of mollycoddling students instead of preparing them for the inescapable challenges of adult life. It’s a similar story in our …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Bridging the gap: 6 strategies for fostering strong school-to-home connections

India Today

Nurturing comes readily to caregivers, parents, and teachers. As parents and educators, it is key to have children embrace challenges they may come across academically or otherwise to build on these life skills. Expose children/ students to appropriate levels of challenge: Help children learn how to deal with challenges and stress by providing opportunities that are achievable but not too …

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1 year ago

Want to stress less in 2024? A new book offers '5 resets' to tame toxic stress

NPR

Want to stress less in 2024? A new book offers '5 resets' to tame toxic stress Enlarge this image toggle caption Meredith Rizzo for NPR Meredith Rizzo for NPR Stress has long been a chronic problem for Americans, and new data suggests it's only worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic. Sponsor Message Stress and burnout — a syndrome of chronic workplace …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Why all work and no play makes a dull life

Live Mint

In a world that revolves around hustle culture, pursuing hobbies and interests is often not a priority. Now, a new study shows that choosing career goals over freedom and fun might not make life better. According to the university's press statement, people who aimed for freedom said they had a 13% increase in well-being as well as better sleep quality …

Work Study

1 year, 4 months ago

The building blocks of resilience in students

Hindustan Times

The recent suicides at Kota are foremost on our minds this World Suicide Prevention Day. Of course, several hundred Indians take their own lives every day, across all walks of life, but we would like to focus on students in extremely high-pressure environments. The first is a story of a male student studying at Kota, whose parents have taken on …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Money problems overtake mental health concerns among students – survey

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The cost-of-living crisis is having an even bigger impact on …

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1 year, 8 months ago

How The Homecoming Project helps you navigate difficult conversations with family

Live Mint

As we go through creeks and crevices of life, there is an increasing awareness that adulthood comes with a sense of loss and distance, especially with parents. With her recent endeavour, The Homecoming Project, Astha Agarwal is supporting young people in reclaiming their family spaces by doing the one thing families often don’t do: talk it out. Through interactions with …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Helping Adolescents Navigate the Challenges of Growing Up

News 18

Adolescence is a critical period when people undergo many physical and psychological changes that typically occur between puberty and adulthood. It is essential to educate adolescents about the risks of alcohol consumption and drugs, provide them with strategies to avoid indulging in life-altering substance abuse. Proper sex education is also important for adolescents to ensure they know how to protect …

Health Adolescents

1 year, 10 months ago

Only slight decrease in mental health problems among young people after lockdowns

NL Times

The proportion of young people with mental health complaints has decreased only slightly since the end of the last coronavirus lockdown in early 2022. While the percentage of young people with psychological problems fell that summer, it rose back up again last autumn, according to Dutch public health institute RIVM. The percentage of adults with mental health complaints or suicidal …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Get Moving: How running helps cope with stress at work

Firstpost

Running can help us manage the expectations, frustrations, and pressures of modern work more effectively. Aside from the obvious physical health benefits, it can help people find an identity that matches who they want to be and feel a sense of belonging to a community of like-minded runners If grabbing your trainers and heading out for a run is your …

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2 years ago

4 ways to befriend stress, navigate through intense situations with resilience

Hindustan Times

If you are seeking an answer on how to develop your relationship with stress, let us first tell you that if you often get stressed owing to job pressure, financial instability, personal concerns or health issues, you should know that you are not the only one. 4 ways to befriend stress, navigate through intense situations with resilience In an interview …

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2 years, 1 month ago

More children as young as 8 calling helplines to talk about stress

NL Times

Children and young adults who call helplines like Kindertelefoon and Alles Oké? Children and young people are especially looking for tips to deal with or stress, or avoid stressful situations. The conversations show that children and young people cannot express their concerns to people in their own environment, according to De Kindertelefoon. De Wilde said that stress in young adults …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Tips to succeed in life and not sink after a crisis

Hindustan Times

A crisis can impact people in numerous ways affecting their emotional, social, physical and financial well-being since often during a crisis, people tend to embrace self-doubts and judge themselves and those around them harshly. Nourishing an ecosystem of happiness driven by compassion and empathy allows people to overcome pain, focus on growth, and support those around them to reimagine success …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Gok Wan on ‘little wins’, his lifelong quest for balance, and why music is a form of self-care

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Self-care is something that “constantly changes” for Wan, but: …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Housing crisis, inflation weighing on young people's mental health after pandemic

NL Times

Young people are still struggling to recover from the mental consequences of the coronavirus, and all the other crises the Netherlands is facing are weighing heavily on them. The housing crisis and skyrocketing inflation, in particular, are affecting their mental health, EenVandaag reported after surveying 3Vraagt - part of the program’s regular opinion panel consisting of over 1,500 young people …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Suicidal thoughts affect 16% of young people; 43% of population feels lonely

NL Times

The increase in young people with suicidal thoughts that happened in the coronavirus lockdowns is not decreasing now that the restrictions have been over for a few months. Sixteen percent of young people between 12 and 25 have serious suicidal thoughts, Netwerk GOR reported on Thursday. Loneliness is also a persisting problem, with 42.5 percent of Netherlands residents feeling lonely …

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2 years, 7 months ago

‘COVID-19 suddenly isolated us. The anxiety and sadness that followed were hard to get away from.’

LA Times

Being a senior in high school is such a strange experience. So many teens suffer from anxiety, depression and other mental health issues, yet it’s hard to get help because so many adults think those struggles aren’t real since we don’t pay bills. Once I moved schools the next year, things got a little better, but then COVID-19 suddenly isolated …

2 years, 7 months ago

Teens affected by the coronavirus crisis need more help, organisations warn

Dutch News

Worrying results of a survey among secondary school pupils about their mental wellbeing warrant more attention to the problem and more measures to help, according to the regional health boards’ umbrella organisation Netwerk GOR. The Corona Health Monitor, a survey of 167,000 pupils carried out in the autumn of 2021, showed teenagers were feeling less happy than before the corona …

Corona

2 years, 7 months ago

Teens affected by the coronavirus crisis need more help, organisations warn

Dutch News

Worrying results of a survey among secondary school pupils about their mental wellbeing warrant more attention to the problem and more measures to help, according to the regional health boards’ umbrella organisation Netwerk GOR. The Corona Health Monitor, a survey of 167,000 pupils carried out in the autumn of 2021, showed teenagers were feeling less happy than before the corona …

Corona

2 years, 7 months ago

People still isolating in fear of getting Covid

NL Times

There are still people living in isolation to prevent infection with the coronavirus, even now that official measures against the virus no longer apply. "Social isolation is six times more common among participants with severe immune impairment and nearly three times more common among participants with other medical conditions than among those with no medical condition." People also stay home …

2 years, 7 months ago

One in five young people considered suicide in last lockdown

NL Times

Over a fifth of young people in the Netherlands seriously thought about suicide at least once during the last lockdown period. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and other health organizations reported this based on a poll among 5,826 young people between 12 and 25 years old. Such thoughts were most common among young people struggling with …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Supporting a teen or young person with anxiety starts with recognising there's a problem

ABC

Sharene Dearlove didn't realise her daughter had any issues with anxiety until "it all came crashing down" on her doorstep. Rupert Saunders, a clinical advice manager from national youth mental health foundation Headspace, says this is partly due to the "increased demands and stressors'' of COVID. "Their brain is doing a lot of development and there's a lot changing in …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Back to School: Students Facing Hard Time Socializing After 2 Years of Social Distancing

News 18

As school campuses reopen after two years, students are having a hard time adjusting to a routine. Read| School Reopening: From Delhi to Kerala, Know Which States Started In-person Classes Going back to school also means getting used to writing practice, sitting straight in class for hours at stretch – which could be taxing at first, said Salukhe. “I had …

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2 years, 11 months ago

School reopening: How to ease children's anxiety and help them re-adjust

Hindustan Times

As schools and colleges across the country are gradually re-opening amid receding third wave of Covid-19, children no wonder are excited about meeting their friends and teachers after a significant gap of two years. We must keep in mind though that after two years of online classes, even coming back to school is a transition that children may take time …

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2 years, 11 months ago

International students often struggle with loneliness, stress

NL Times

International students in the Netherlands often struggle with loneliness and high work pressure, according to student unions ISO and LSVb. The student unions often talk to international students struggling with the strict rules, the coronavirus crisis, and not having anyone to talk to. According to the student unions, a big problem is a rule that requires EU students to work …

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3 years ago

Third lockdown increases psychological impact on students

NL Times

Student psychologists have been receiving an increasing number of students asking for help as higher education closes their doors for the third time during the lockdown, NOS reported. Student psychologist Jerre Mijnarends told the news outlet that young people come to him with complaints from depression to homesickness. "There is this expectation that your student days will be one of …

Students Student Mijnarends

3 years ago

Half of young people experience mainly negative effects from Covid crisis

NL Times

Nearly half of young people think that the coronavirus crisis mainly negatively affected their lives. The researchers submitted a questionnaire to over 8,000 young people aged 12 to 25 from early February to mid-April this year. Over a quarter of young people in education missed going to class or the lecture hall. Almost half of the young people in education …

Young Young People

3 years, 2 months ago

How develop your resilience

Live Mint

Resilience has become the buzzword in the face of Covid-19. Consulting Psychotherapist, Counselling Educator & Relationship Counsellor Dr Bhonsle believes that our culture of instant gratification has become a roadblock for building resilience these days, “There is a low threshold for tolerating discomfort or frustrations in day-to-day life and hence, in turn, there is the unwillingness and inability to deny …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Six ways to give students the mental strength to cope with university

The Telegraph

In a few weeks’ time, nervous parents across the country will be packing their cars: pots and pans obscuring windows, laptops and speakers jostling for space, duvets squeezed into corners and lanky teens folded into passenger seats. It’s a big leap.” Seeing the problems his students face has inspired Hooper to write a book, The Unbreakable Student: 6 Rules for …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Feeling stressed about Victoria's sixth COVID-19 lockdown? Here's our no-platitudes guide to surviving

ABC

So you are stuck in another lockdown and feeling like it's groundhog day. "The different thing about the later lockdowns from the early ones is that we do have real hope," Professor McGorry says. "I think if people keep a sense of perspective and hope, that'll probably help them to get through this type of lockdown, as opposed to the …

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3 years, 5 months ago

For Olympic athletes, it’s been an even more stressful games than usual

Live Mint

Biles dramatically withdrew from her gymnastics competitions, saying she wasn’t mentally ready to safely compete. “These Olympics are certainly like no other that I’ve been to," said Ruth Anderson, Cycling Australia’s head for performance psychology and behaviors. “The biggest challenge for these Olympic Games is how athletes are able to adapt to…a competition environment that’s very different to what we’ve …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Yes, this lockdown is harder than before. A trauma specialist explains why

ABC

I was away from my phone for a few hours on Sunday and suddenly most of the country was in lockdown again. We're limping towards an invisible finish line "I think this latest round of lockdowns is particularly challenging for a few different reasons," Ms Howard says. "There are ongoing financial stresses, and JobKeeper has come to an end," Ms …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Unusual school life may affect children's social behaviour: Experts

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Child psychologists suggest that several outgoing school students could face difficulties in adopting normal social behaviour as they enter college in an offline setting. Students in several schools have expressed their disappointment over not being able to meet friends and classmates like usual and even missing out on big school events and functions like investiture ceremony, sports functions, and …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Managing your mental health when facing a new COVID-19 lockdown

ABC

It's understandable if you are feeling upset, anxious or frustrated by news of another lockdown. "The problem is when you're getting caught up in news or social media, and it's eating up your time and it's doing more harm than good," says Dr James Collett, a lecturer in psychology at Melbourne's RMIT University. Dr Collett says it can help to …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Children frequently calling support lines for help despite schools reopening

NL Times

The Kindertelefoon has said they are still receiving many worrisome calls from children and young adults despite secondary schools reopening. All in all, we are still having an unprecedented high number of distressing calls every day”, director of the Kindertelefoon, Roline de Wilde said to the ANP. “Students are afraid they have fallen too far behind because they lacked motivation …

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3 years, 8 months ago

End of lockdown fear: I’m dreading the easing of coronavirus restrictions

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Because I also have autism spectrum …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19: Children exhibiting behaviour disorders due to curfews and lockdowns

India Today

State after state is imposing curfews and partial lockdown to curb the surge in numbers, but longer quarantine period, fear of infection, helplessness, frustration, boredom, inadequate information and financial loss is creating stress for citizens. Parents and councillors need to be extremely aware of behaviour changes on children, irritation, a sudden burst of anger, going into a shell.” Mental health …

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3 years, 9 months ago

The year when parents grew extra pairs of hands

Live Mint

"O woe is me! “Now I won’t be able to do the assignment, then I will get a rap from the teacher tomorrow, and then I will have to finish two days worth of homework in one day, and…” These what-if scenarios, generally triggered by Wi-Fi glitches, have played out regularly in our house over the past year. In fact, …

3 years, 9 months ago

Iain Stirling: I’ve begrudgingly had to admit fitness and mental wellbeing go hand in hand

The Independent

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3 years, 9 months ago

What do pandemic restrictions mean for teens’ social life?

Live Mint

For teens, pandemic restrictions have resulted in less time with friends and cancelling of sports activities and concerts. Those who rely on social connections for emotional support, the covid-19 pandemic may have taken a heavy toll on mental health, a new poll suggests. Forty-six per cent of parents say their teen has shown signs of a new or worsening mental …

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3 years, 9 months ago

‘It’s exhausting.’ A year of distance learning wears thin

Associated Press

AMERICUS, Ga. — At first, many schools announced it would last only a couple weeks. “The first 30 minutes of class, I won’t really be there,” she says. Her English teacher is out with COVID-19, so another oversees the reading of “Romeo and Juliet.” A classmate holds a baby brother during history class, where the teacher’s efforts to keep students’ …

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3 years, 9 months ago

'It's exhausting.' A year of distance learning wears thin

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The first 30 minutes of class, I won’t really …

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3 years, 10 months ago

How to cope with anxiety about returning to the world after lockdown

The Independent

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3 years, 10 months ago

School Counselors Predict How COVID-19 Will Change Our Kids

Huff Post

Justin Paget via Getty Images For nearly a year, the lives of children in the United States, and around the world, have been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Middle, high school definitely and even college-age kids are living through an enormous amount of sudden change and unpredictable change that leaves people just generally anxious,” Oglesby said. “They’re kind …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Why we may have to re-learn to socialise

BBC

Why we may have to re-learn to socialise Alamy With socialising at a near halt during the pandemic, our social muscles have atrophied. Alamy Elbow bumps as greetings may stay as many are finding it awkward to ease back into hugs and other types of physical contact the pandemic has suspended For instance, people with smaller and less complex social …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Kids helpline often called for emotional support in second lockdown

NL Times

In the second coronavirus lockdown, kids are calling the children's helpline much more often about emotional problems than they did in the first lockdown, the Kindertelefoon reported. Between December 14 and January 10, the number of conversations about depression increased by 21 percent, compared to the first lockdown in the spring. "During the first lockdown we saw many normal subjects, …

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Many young people struggling to juggle everything after lockdown

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