Changes in kids' lives affect their mental health

Kids starting school are likely to have mental illness issues as they will experience new things

Change is good but it also impacts the mental health, not just of adults, but children’s as well.

With hundreds of thousands of children starting school over the past few weeks and pictures of children crying for their parents as they were left in school on their first day being circulated widely, experts warn about the effects of mental health on children due to changes happening in their lives...

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