You can spend all day with your friends at school, but you can’t have them round for a party at the weekend. You can play for your football team and go to an outdoor Scouts meeting but can’t do the same things with the same people in the park on your own. And at any point you may be told that you’re confined to the house for a fortnight – even longer if you’ve just started university.
Many of us are mentally adjusting to the fact that 2020 is a write-off and hunkering down for a cold, unpleasant winter hoping for some kind of renewal in the spring. For children those timescales are astronomical and require a huge emotional shift.
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