00:00mental health professionals say a record number of children and teens are
00:04struggling mentally and what they're saying about what is harmful to a child's
00:08happiness may surprise you psychologists say children's mental
00:13health was already on the decline before covid but the pandemic made it
00:17worse studies showed that high schoolers were going through feelings of
00:21sadness or hopelessness in 2021 the surgeon general issued an advisory
00:26regarding kids and their mental health the pandemic he wrote exacerbated the
00:31unprecedented stresses young people already faced the most recent youth risk
00:36behavior surveillance survey data shows that the percentage of high schoolers
00:41who considered suicide rose again from 18.8% in 2019 to 22.2% in 2021 and the
00:50percentage who attempted suicide rose from 8.9% to 10.2% in just a two-year
00:57period data shows that there's also a correlation between social media use and
01:02mental health concerns especially for teenage girls child psychologists say
01:07the biggest threat to a child's happiness is their parent or guardians
01:11relentless pursuit of their kids happiness they say it's counterproductive
01:15to the child's well-being in the long term kids need to learn to cope with
01:19changing emotions in healthy ways they say they also need to learn to handle
01:24things like disappointments and failures to build resilience also if parents
01:29focus so much on a child's achievements and looking only for successes they run
01:33the risk of the child not knowing that they are loved and valued
01:36unconditionally mental health professionals points out that the idea that
01:40kids are supposed to be happy all of the time can actually deprive them of some
01:45very important life lessons
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