Learner Dad: A lot of the chit-chat is about Pokémon trading cards - it’s hardly new 

"The upshot now is that after school the old bandstand in the park is like the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, with kids talking up their Pokémon collection and trading surplus cards."

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We’re all languishing these days, according to The New York Times. An article last week revealed that loads of us are experiencing a mental state in that grey area between depression and flourishing and that scientists have decided to call it languishing. This, according to the article, is because a lot of us are struggling with “the emotional long haul of the pandemic”. 

Now that the initial terror of Covid has subsided, we have gone from anguish to languish. Within hours, it was hard to open an article online without coming across our new friend ‘languishing’ – after all, it was in The New York Times, so it must be true.