We just recently released our EDI Wave 6 results to look at how the EDI has been changing over the past decade in terms of trends over time across the Kindergarten children in British Columbia. And we noticed two major trends. One on the good news side is that vulnerability in language and cognitive development is actually decreasing. So from the time we began the Wave 2 it was 2003-2004 that has been a downward trend of decreased vulnerability. So we know now that there\u2019s probably been many efforts across the province to focus on the language and it\u2019s often one that people know how to address, right, to deal with literacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But on the other hand, a more sort of bad news story I guess would be increasing vulnerability on two domains. One is called emotional maturity and the other one is called social competence. So over the past decade we\u2019ve actually seen increased vulnerability across children in British Columbia on those two dimensions. Now often we look and see what could be the cause; what could be the factors? It could be the increased burden on families. I\u2019ve mentioned; I\u2019ve talked about research that I\u2019ve done with a colleague on stress contagion where we find that actually stress is contagious from adults to children as we have increasing pressures on parents that there\u2019s increased stress at home and that children, especially in the area of social competence and emotional maturity are experiencing that. Could there be also if you think of social media, are we all taken away too much of being on our cell phones or being, even I think of the work place and how much more employees are being pressured to be available 24\/7. You know, and so is that another stress that then cascades down in to the family life; that then children are the collateral damage for that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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