COVID-19 restrictions have significantly affected children in their formative years, imposing a secluded form of education and socialization that parents and health professionals say has had a negative impact on kids’ mental health and their learning experience and progression. As COVID rules gradually relax and children ease back into a more “normal” life, parents and teachers have an important role to play in facilitating this transition. Lindsay McBride, a registered psychologist in Vancouver, said that flooding young children with negative news and scare tactics, as has been done over the past two years, ultimately affects their core development. “Since March 2020, we have spent this very significant amount of time telling kids that the world wasn’t safe,” McBride told The Epoch Times. “Consequently, when we do that on an ongoing basis, we rewire the brain and we change the fundamental structure of the nervous system. So what ends up happening …