Advice for parents on how to deal with anxious children

Parents can’t change the outside world for anxious children but we can change their inner world by giving them ways to deal with it, says Maria Osborne, school counselor . She works at Sensational Kids where doctors are “fully aware” of high levels of anxiety and school rejection, which they say has two years of clinical life. “Covid has changed the way kids perceive safety and seeing the world,” he said. Images and stories of the war that came from Ukraine have now been added to the mix.

The change of goal posts, in and out of the locker, affected different students in different ways. For some on the autistic spectrum who wanted to stay home, getting back to school was very difficult. Some children are familiar with their parents at home all the time. When parents return to the office, new babysitters may come into those children's lives. For students who were difficult to learn, online home schooling was a great problem.

Teens and teenagers find they struggle harder. “They can be very worried about that and refuse to go to school because they now realize‘ my education is below the level of my peers, ’” he said. Some children are still afraid of the coronavirus. “Now that we say it’s okay now, the patient is weak, that’s a lot of the child’s mind. They don’t feel comfortable mixing with everyone; they clean 20 times a day. ” Sensational Kids will be conducting special training for children aged 10-18 on stress reduction techniques.

What's most exciting about working with children, he added, is that their high level of neuroplasticity means "you can chemically change their brains. It's not their destiny."