GREENSBORO, N.C. -  Experts and parents say they are worried about how the isolation due to the pandemic will impact children and adolescents' social skills longterm. 

Ellie Morgan is a senior at Grimsley High School and says her social life has been confined to the outdoors. 

"I've been able to get with some of my very close friends in my inner circle, and we kind of just hang out out here. We have food, we have a fire, or we kick around a soccer ball. Most of the stuff we do is outside," Morgan says. 

Her mom says her and her husband have been working to give their kids' some kind of socialization, operating under the idea that it is safer to gather outdoors.

"It's just more authentic, and it's more real than constantly zooming with people, staring at screens or trying to Facetime," Leslie Morgan says. 

Janet Howard is the program director for "Bringing Out the Best," an early intervention program helping prepare kids for school. She saysisolation is dangerous for teenagers. 

"It causes depression. It is creating these confidence issues, especially these days relying on social media for interaction and you're getting a fake view of what's really going on," Howard says. 

The Morgans have seen the impact of isolation firsthand. 

"Definitely it's made me more depressed and more, I guess down. It's harder to get excited about doing things with your friends because you know, 'Oh I'm just going to be doing the same thing we've been doing since March, and that's doing something outside or watching a movie," Ellie Morgan says.