That Child Psychiatrist

Now that the pandemic curve has been well and truly flattened with a lot of necessary (but extremely hard) social distancing, it’s time for our young people to get back to school. Over the past few weeks our young people have been learning from home. As a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, I have seen many families with varying experiences of online learning in Gold Coast and Brisbane. For some, online learning has gone really well. Some young people have had no trouble getting up on time, preparing for the days lessons and signing on to whatever their school uses for home learning. They have also been able to keep up with the pace and expectations set for them, enjoyed learning via Zoom or Teams or their schools preferred learning platform and been bang on with their schoolwork. Their parents have also found it easy and relaxing as they have not had to worry about their kids being at school during the pandemic, have seen their learning skyrocket and marvelled at their child'...