Anxiety is a large part of life for children, whether its family or school issues, but combating anxiety can be tricky. Luckily a new alternative has been gaining popularity in both the academic and health care world; pediatric massage. Massage therapy has been proven to assist in many types of childhood ailments but has now become popular when dealing with emotional and academic anxiety.
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Children face a large amount of anxiety dealing with both family and school issues making combating anxiety very hard to handle. However a new alternative has been gaining popularity in both the academic and health care world; pediatric massage. Pediatric massage has proven to assist in many childhood ailments but has now become popular when dealing with emotional and academic anxiety
At the heart of anxiety is worry, this is the central characteristic and causes a level of excessive concern about real or imagined situations. A child may have anxiety about a big test that is coming up (real), but also may be worried about what to wear to school in fear they may be teased (imagined.) When worrying gets to an excessive point and begins to interfere with the child's life, treatment is necessary. One of the hardest parts of diagnosing and treating anxiety is that it manifests itself in many different ways; behavioral, thinking and physical reactions.
Normally anxiety presents itself around seven to nine months old and is exhibited by "stranger anxiety", meaning the infant will become upset around new people. This "stranger anxiety" signals the child's cognitive development when children begin to discriminate among people, distinguishing between intimate caregivers and new people introduced into their life. The next development stage happens around 12-18 months when we see our children begin to exhibit separation anxiety when we try to go to dinner, or run an errand, and normally works itself out by the age of two. Both of these periods are important indicators that our children are developing as normal!
Around the right years of age, children begin to focus on less on identifiable stresses such as animals or monsters under their beds and focus more on less specific concerns like grades or social pressures.. As the child begins to grow into adolescents they begin to worry about a host of additional issues; such as sexuality and moral issues which can all lead to increased levels of anxiety.
Making sure to be there for you child is important, creating a daily time to review their day and understand their feelings is critical. Pay attention to their verbal and non-verbal cues, as well as, outside influences when dealing with their anxiety is essential. Many children may act out due to stress or anxiety and giving your child the understanding that they are dealing with those stresses is important.
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