What a crazy time we find ourselves in! The education of our children, since March 23rd, has been entirely driven by their devices and their ability to navigate the online world. What a shame that many children who had not yet been put in front of a computer, were asked overnight to stare at it all day.

The silver lining of this Covid 19 cloud however, has been a lock down with our children, without their hectic schedules and what many now feel, their gratuitous extra-curricular activities. Not only that, there does seem to have been a necessary uplift in the executive skills required to march through the online day. Bizarrely that has seemed more difficult than the physical drift they once had from classroom to classroom Monday to Friday. Odd that isn't it? Devices making real life harder, not easier?

Mmmmmmm.

We could argue that without the technology, the education of our children would quite simply have ground to a halt during lock down. And for that, I know, we should be grateful.

However, now more than ever, these children need human contact again. Cuddles from their friends, real eye to eye, heart to heart and head to head contact. Never have we been more fatigued by screens. And for some children, never have they been more addicted to them. So now please let's help them all put the screen down. As and when schools re-open may we encourage them to leave the house so fast in the excitement to see their friends again, that they leave their phones on the kitchen table, and don't notice until morning break that they are gone. By which time, it will be too late. Sorry. Not sorry.

Hello Human Beings and real things. Bye bye mobile device, we'll see you at tea time after school, if we remember you exist.