Compared to the Covid emergency in the school new measures and restrictions will not be adopted, but the problems are not over at all. Families and schools will have to accompany girls and boys to resume their lives, dealing with emotional, social and school damage resulting from what they have experienced
September 2021. «Good morning principal, my daughter is still in a deep post-covid discomfort. He says that He can’t go back to school. Can we have teaching at a distance? ». «The DAD is activated in the face of the presentation of medical or psychological certifications that attest to an objective state. All the boys will have difficulty returning in presence, in finding the measure of relationships, in resuming the thread of ordinary school life. But who does not have Conclaemate pathologies He has to try. He has to make an effort. Otherwise it will be increasingly difficult to get out of the comfort area that have been created in their bedrooms ».
The mother takes note of the position of the school and comes out perplexed by the presidency. A few months later he returns to thank. It says that the daughter at the beginning has done a little effort, but now is serenehappy to have returned to class and to have found his companions and professors. Here, in September 2022 we will find ourselves in a situation similar to that of last year.
How do you go back to school in 2022?
Compared to the Covid emergency, the Country seems to return to normal. Even in the school other emergency measures will be adopted. There will be no more obligations relating to vaccines, the use of masks, distances and so on. But i problems are not over at all. We will have to manage a sort of post-covid emergencywhich in some respects will be even more difficult. Families and schools will have to accompany girls and boys to resume their lives, dealing with emotional, social and school damage resulting from what they have experienced.
We adults will have a New generationdifferent, which has had an irregular growth path, which will react to events in an unpredictable way. We will all have to get involved, acquire new skills, observe, understand. Above all, we will have to avoid using pre -packaged formulas, solutions suitable for other moments, to other contexts. We will have to agree to surf the open sea and look for roads together with our children/students.
One of the things we will have to deal with will be theuncertainty of the future. We will live not knowing what will happen in the coming months, if we recover in the situation of these years, even if we hope that, if it happens, there will be a different management that, for example, can guarantee the school in presence. Because precariousness wears down. Mentally, physically.
Psychologists have told many times the malaise of the boys with respect to this condition. The future, to which they should look with confidence and hope, becomes an element that instead destabilizes them. Moreover, it is often underestimated that children and adolescents have to deal, as well as with theirs personal uncertaintyeven with that of their families. Parents who lose their jobs, who find themselves in economic difficulties or who enter the couple crisis and sometimes separate. It will be important to stay close to ours to the boys, to understand how this phase live and possibly get help, we and them, by psychologists or other professionals.
The fear of physical contact
Many of us then remained fear. Especially that of physical contactconnected to the fear of being infected again. Some will still hold the mask, despite no longer mandatory. And in any case we all unconsciously retain an instinctive concern approaching others. Give yourself a kiss or embrace each other risk becoming rare gesturesacts of courage for someone, of unconsciousness for others. A humanly terrible fact, on which we will have to work to reconstruct the meaning of our being people, the possibility of remaining community.
Schools and families will also have to do their part, to prevent legitimate fear break the social tiesbecoming generally distrust towards the other and transforms us into non -communicating monads, closed in our homes to trust only our family members (and sometimes not even those).
Also, there are Lissed experiences. Children and teenagers have done less sports, fewer music, less recreational and social activities. And then they did less friendships, they met less, in love less. And they had less relational conflicts to manage. This will impact on their growth.
Different paths to avoid stress
There will be delays. We will still have guys with different paths from those of previous generations. For this reason it is important that schools and families give them back the opportunity to have experiences, looking for areas in which they can meet pleasure and desire. And a lot will also be needed patiencewe will have to wait for their times.
We cannot pretend that a 16 -year -old boy today, after two years of pandemic, has the same skills and follows the same “chronoprogram of life” as his peers from the past. For this we will have to welcome them, with their limits and their difficulties, avoiding adding stress To those who already have on their behalf in facing situations in which some will not have understanding and ask them for services that they cannot give. Moreover, it would be important, to relate correctly with our children and our students, that We adults too honestly sought to deal with the emotional and social damage that the pandemic produced us. Without hiding our weaknesses and our crises.
Different families and schools will be needed. That they observe and listen more. That are looking for new solutions. Who push the boys to theautonomy without leaving them alone. A complex game, on which the fate of the new generations and also the future of our society is played. A game that we can only win together. If we help each other with each other, if we enhance our cognitive and emotional intelligence, we can find new relational balances. It will not be easy, but the challenges that arise from the moments of crisis are also the most fascinating.
