The Teen Girls Aren t Going to Forget – Common Sense
Teenagers need a social life. Every single study and report and piece of data tells us so. But we don t need studies to tell us what we all already know. Ask yourself: What would it have been like if you had spent your thirteenth year in solitude?
It was more than a year, actually. Millions of American kids had gone a year-and-a-half mostly alone. And every single girl I spoke to said the same thing about the experience: They felt like they were sinking, or being swallowed up.
So it almost seemed like an understatement when, in December 2021, the Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, said the effect of the lockdowns had been devastating for young people s mental health.
It was no bargain for teen boys either.