Growing up in lockdown

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people around the world, and with many countries still in lockdown the impact will continue to be felt for many years. Not least for teenagers, whose education, family and social lives have been profoundly disrupted. Today we meet such teenagers: Ayushmaan in New Delhi, Emma in Hamburg, Pelumi in Lagos and Gracie in Auckland talk to host Tamasin Ford and each other about the challenges of nearing adulthood in a world under lockdown, and how the extra pressures have impacted their mental health.

Remember if any of the issues in today’s edition affect you, do seek the help of a professional mental health body if not a doctor or friends and family.

Producer: Frey Lindsay. (Image credit: Getty Creative.)

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Tamerson Ford. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, we're in Germany, Nigeria, New Zealand and India, finding out what it's like to grow up in a pandemic.
0:14.5	You wake up every morning and you sit in front of your computer, you're going through the same classes, and after the point you mentally burn out.
0:21.6	It's really exhausting.
0:22.6	It makes me angry because I feel like I've missed a big part of my teenage life already.
0:28.6	I've heard many people saying that it must be easier for the younger people, but I don't
0:33.4	think it's like that at all.
0:35.5	Communicate with others, check up on others, see how other people are doing, because we're all in this together.
0:41.3	We hear what it's like living your teenage years under lockdown.
0:46.3	That's in Business Daily from the BBC.
0:52.3	Okay, so hi, I'm Emma. I'm 15 years old, almost 16, and I'm from Hamburg.
0:59.7	Hi, I'm Ayushman. I'm 16 years old, and I'm from New Delhi, India.
1:04.6	Hi, I'm Pallimi, I'm 17, and I'm from Lagos, Nigeria.
1:09.4	Hi, I'm Gracie, I'm 16 years old, and I'm from Auckland, New Zealand. Hi, I'm Gracie. I'm 16 years old and I'm from Auckland, New Zealand.
1:13.6	I really want to find out what's going on in each of your countries, who's going to school, who can see their friends.
1:20.2	Emma, in Hamburg in Germany at the moment, what can you do or what can't you do?
1:26.0	Okay, so I don't go to school right now, so I have homeschooling all day.
1:31.8	We're having a spring break or something like that next week,
1:35.4	and I think after that, lessons are going to start again
1:38.2	where maybe half of the class is there, and on the other day the other half is there.
1:42.6	And we are able to see friends but only once
1:45.9	at a time so um yes wow so you've really been stuck at home and what about you iishman in in
1:52.0	in Delhi and India for about 12 months there was no physical school at all it was completely online
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