All you need to do is structure your children’s days… it will give them control over the loss of predictability The ongoing lockdown has altered almost everyone’s life in some way or the other.
Besides pushing people to adopt a different way of living and working, the spread of the coronavirus and the constant buzz around it is increasingly being seen as disturbing the mental health of millions of housebound children.
In an interview, Dr Shekhar P. Seshadri, a renowned psychiatrist and professor of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Hospital (Nimhans), said families and mental health professionals need to “bring a control over the loss of predictability".