After corona, children are unable to think as quickly as before, we have warned about it

The movement skills of boys and girls are far below the level that children and adolescents reached before the epidemic. After the epidemic, some improvement could be detected first, but after last year’s stagnation, a declaration was already detected in the national system of sports education (ŠVK). The proportion of children with obesity has also increased significantly. Experts have noted this year that sport is also important in prevention about peer violence.

The impact of an epidemic, when children were neither in school nor in sports clubs, is still very noticeable. The problem is that it was as if there was no epidemics and closure of schools at all. “The proportion of children who have mental problems is increasing. These hardships are also associated with movement development. The children have, because they have not been in school for so long, did not practice in sports clubs, slower reactions. If this is manifested at the movement level, it is similar at a cognitive level. According to corona, children are unable to think as quickly as before. We pointed to this, but no one considered it. The tests were not shortened. Children no longer compete, but they know, but whether they will solve the tasks in a timely manner, « warned Dr. Gregor Starchead of the national system of ŠVK, full professor and member of the Slofit Research Group at the Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana.