Letters to the Editor: Teaching kids to fish is a gift that will last a lifetime

One reader says rather than staring into screens, youngsters would be better off passing a contemplative few hours on a riverbank
Letters to the Editor: Teaching kids to fish is a gift that will last a lifetime

A large part of the gift of angling is that children develop an appreciation of nature including the sight of their 'competitors' such as herons like this one preparing to dive for its next meal. Picture: Dan Linehan

Up to 1.4m children under 13 in the UK use TikTok — and they are being flooded with harmful algorithms and content.

This is screwing with their dopamine levels and how they regulate themselves, within their ‘reward centres’ / brains.

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