School Anxiety Symptoms

August 9, 8:50 PMAdoption ExaminerMarcie Pickelsimer

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Many children have school anxiety, especially in August when they head into a new classroom with a strange teacher, new classmates, and sometimes even a bigger and more frightening school.

A lot of children with hide their fears; masking them and putting on the tough guy face so as to charge straight ahead. They don't want their peers to know they are shakin' in their boots and they certainly don't want us parents to know their stomachs are churning. They want to be big kids, right?

Children with anxiety about school may show it in a variety of ways but as parents we need to be tuned into this. As adoptive parents we need to ensure our children that their separation anxiety is real and that we won't be leaving them.

Symptoms:

Physical symptoms: include headaches, stomachaches, nausea, or diarrhea.

Behavioral: tantrums, inflexibility, separation anxiety, avoidance, defiance, aggression