Another classmate is an academic and sporting champion, but her social anxiety has been a constant concern for her parents, who would like to see structures put in place to alleviate their child’s inability to form close bonds in the classroom. I asked my daughter why the exercise had made...
Generalized Anxiety:When a child or adult is affected by generalized anxiety, they will have unrealistic worries. These worries may be about the future or something terrible happening to them or someone they love. They may also deal with excessive worries about performing everyday activities. Additi...
"More than anything, I'm worried that I'm not supportive enough as my kids are dealing with heightened anxiety over the whole thing," she says. "I'm just trying to come to terms with it. I'm usually the mom with all the answers, but here I have none." Although home schooling is...
Anxiety can be tough to deal with, but dealing with it has given you certain strengths that are unique to you, and amazing. Own them – they’re pretty great strengths to have. You’re a thinker, you’re creative, you’re brave, strong and determined, and you feel things richly and...
Dr. John Young, chair and senior vice president for psychiatry at Northwell Health and the Zucker School of Medicine, said more kids are dealing with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse and attention deficit disorders. Sign up for the Health newsletter Get the latest stories ...
Unfortunately, the results of recent research align with my daughter’s discovery in class. According to a study reported onMSNBC, “…five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the...
These are few of my ideas on helping kids in dealing with stage fright. Main thing is to work with it. The more they resist their anxiety, the more it will work against them. I would love to hear what you have to say about stage fright and how do you handle it?
How to Help Your Kids Travel with Anxiety It can be touch and go traveling with any child, but when you add anxiety to the mix it can get tricky! As we travel around this summer we are dealing with not only my own anxiety, but all of my children’s anxie
That's why students at Winters Mill High School in Westminster, Maryland, have launched a peer advocacy club called "Falcons of Strength" to help classmates who may be dealing with anxiety or other mental health problems and to spread positivity and hope. ...
the children praised for their “intelligence" were dealing with anxiety while the test was ongoing. They lost confidence and saw the exercise as proof of their perceived ineptitude. Feeling defeated, the “intelligence group" went on to post the aforesaid low scores when given an easy final tes...