Is your child refusing to go to school in 2020? They're not alone

In early January and February, Covid-19-related anxiety began to feature in my clinic. It began with children sharing their fears of dying or worries about parents dying. Picture: iStock

School days are the best days of your life, or so the saying goes. But that doesn’t apply to everyone, unfortunately. 

Parentline is reporting a huge increase in calls from parents around school refusal since children went back to school in September.