Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by prawn on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:25AM (#34907443)

How different is this from most out of school care? When we've had our kids in what here is called OSHC (out of school hours care or similar), it's been pretty free-form and vaguely supervised. Some kids do art, some muck around on the oval, some roam in nature play (with a supervisor in the general area), some watch a movie.

I guess you're talking about a little bit more organisation - today, muck around with racquets and shuttlecocks, tomorrow muck around with calligraphy brushes and ink.

I always remember once in unstructured art time (1980s, substitute teacher...) around the age of 11-12, we were all nailing together strips of masonite, making cross-shaped projectiles about 500mm across, and then flinging them around the oval. They would've been absolutely deadly if that wasn't shut down!

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Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by somethoughts on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:41PM (#34916915)

I think the challenge is that these programs phase out by middle school even though they should really continue to mid-high school. Really people just need a nice space to study, learn, grow, etc.

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Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by prawn on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:50PM (#34917845)

That's true. By that age, kids can be disruptive and unmanageable. You'd need a far more engaging and hands-on program, that would be a lot more expensive to administer.

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