{"id":757,"date":"2025-09-10T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireachinsights.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:05:34","slug":"more-than-1-in-2-54-of-adults-feel-that-seeing-children-returning-to-school-makes-them-glad-theyre-an-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/more-than-1-in-2-54-of-adults-feel-that-seeing-children-returning-to-school-makes-them-glad-theyre-an-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1 in 2 (54%) of adults feel that seeing children returning to school makes them glad they\u2019re an adult."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>74% of adults aged 18-24 agree that seeing children returning to school makes them glad they\u2019re an adult with 51% of these strongly agreeing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 1 in 3 adults (38%) think that the school years are the best years of your life with 15% of these strongly feeling this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly half (48%) of adults aged 18-24 wish they were back in school with 28% strongly agreeing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>46% of adults say what they miss most about school is spending so much time with friends. This is highest for adults aged 25-34 with 70% missing this most.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>43% say it\u2019s the lack of responsibility that they miss most about school and 37% say it\u2019s they miss the feeling on the first day of Summer holidays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>32% of adults say they miss learning new things in school, 25% miss having their dinner made for them by their parent\/ guardian every day, and 16% miss P.E.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>45%of adults are glad they don\u2019t have to worry about homework now that they\u2019re not in school, 44% are glad they don\u2019t have to stress about The Leaving Cert, and 44% are happy not to be studying things they have no intertest in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more statistics you can visit us at our blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/ireachhq.com\/blog\">https:\/\/ireachhq.com\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About iReach Insights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">iReach Insights provides a range of research and market intelligence services in Ireland and Europe. iReach has built a Consumer Decisions Research Panel of 40,000 members in Ireland, delivering robust research insights. The survey questions were included in the Nationally Representative iReach Consumer Decisions Omnibus run between the 28<sup>th<\/sup> of August and 4<sup>th<\/sup> of September and has a 3% Confidence Interval and 95% Confidence Level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Questions asked of adults nationwide:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q1. With children returning to school in the coming weeks, to what extent do you agree with the following statements?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q2. Which of the following do you miss about school?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Q3. Which of the following are you glad you don\u2019t have to worry about now that you\u2019re not in school?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>iReach Insights Limited \u2013 Temple Hall, Temple Road, Blackrock, CO. Dublin, IRELAND.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>iReach Managing Director: Oisin Byrne<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nT: 01-214 3740 or email: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"mailto:oisin.byrne@ireachhq.com\">oisin.byrne@ireachhq.com<\/a> or phone 086 8506364<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>74% of adults aged 18-24 agree that seeing children returning to school makes them glad they\u2019re an adult with 51% of these strongly agreeing. &nbsp; Over 1 in 3 adults (38%) think that the school years are the best years of your life with 15% of these strongly feeling this. &nbsp; Nearly half (48%) of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.teamarcs.com\/ireach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}