I have been watching the 6 pm news and, in particular , a piece on how young children have missed out on peer talk during lockdown. I can see that this will have had a detrimental effect. However, I could not help but notice that most of the adults speaking did so using the horrid Antipodean lilt at the end of a sentence, thus making it sound like a question. AIBU in thinking that this, in itself, is not good for children to hear and repeat?