If you haven't yet seen this article, I urge you to do so. It made me weep...
My hunch is that similar regulations, physical dividers and enforced distancing will happen beyond Thailand's borders (I live in Asia, so these stories land in my inbox first). And for who knows how long?
I'm deeply troubled and worried about the short- and long-term impact on children who cannot play and talk side by side, can't wrestle each other to the ground, can't play with dolls face to fact, can't hug and get hugs. This absence of physical interaction is going to show up in many strange, unimaginable and unsettling ways for years to come...together with increased ACEs, that may very well spiral out of control.
What can we, as a community of concerned citizens - not just parents, teachers, counsellors and pediatricians - envision, innovate and create so that children are still able to interact, up close, in safe ways?
I believe that we need to reach out to designers and architects and play therapists, ergonomic specialists and others, to ensure that children aren't relegated to an exclusively digital world.
Ideas?
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