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Teaching Children How to Deal With Stress and Anxiety
As parents, it is important to recognize the signs of stress and anxiety in our children and to provide them with the tools and resources to manage it.
The child of a divorced mother was studying in 10th standard at our school. The mother lived in very poor conditions and used to beg to teach her child. One day, the child was verbally abused in the house and that minor verbal abuse drove the child to commit suicide. The mother, who was living alone and begging for her son, lost everything in an instant. Similarly, another student of mine committed suicide due to not getting a bike at home. A 30-year-old friend of mine also lost his life due to similar circumstances, causing eternal pain to his parents. There are many such incidents, of which I have mentioned only a few. This shows that there is a lot of stress and anxiety in our society, but we don’t know how to deal with it. Young children, especially, do not tolerate stress and anxiety.
Stress and anxiety are a normal part of life, but when they exceed the limits, they can have a very detrimental effect on a child’s physical, mental, and emotional health, which may also result in accidents as discussed above. It is essential for parents to help children learn how to manage…
