Separation anxiety is a real struggle for a lot of parents as they are sending their kids to college, high school, or even preschool and kindergarten. As a baby, if they seem neverous to be introduced to a new toy or if the parent is nervous to hand their baby over to someone else to meet them, even if it's a family member the child can eventually have separation anxiety and this could lead to differen types of anxiety as well. A couple main causes for the child to have separation anxiety is if the parents are divorced and the child has to constntly be switching homes, dealing with the loss of a family member and/ or pet. If you take your kid to school then don't linger around too long then your child will never wanna go in. If your pick your kid up after school then think about getting them a watch so they know exactly when you are going to be there. Ways to keep the anxiety is down is to have a daily routine that you do everday when your child wakes up and have them pick out their outfit the night before that way the mornings aren't rushed and you don't run late. Also, try and meet the teacher before school starts and have them show you around the school and the classrrom.
Question #1- If you disovered your child has seperation anxiety, what would you do?
I would probably just act like nothing is wrong, and have a daily routine for when my son/daughter wakes up and have them plan what they are wearing for the next day, and plan what they want for breakfast and everything else that way we don't have to rush in the mornings and the mornings can be calmer.
Queston #2- How would you feel if your child had seperation anxiety? Why?
I would proably feel like I would need to try harder as a mom to keep my son/daughter calmer more often because I know people with anxiety and when their anxiety happens it's kinda scary so I would try my best to keep them happy and calm.
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Great job Victoria! Good topic!
I would have a daily routine for them and if I needed to I'd figure out other ways to help them. I would be a little scared if my child had separation anxiety but I would be the best parent I could be.
I agree with your idea of having a daily routine for them to follow. If they have a certain routine that they can do each day then they won't have anything to worry about, and neither will you.
I feel like if I found out my child had seperation anxiety, I would constantly be worried about them or waiting to get a call from their teachers saying there was a problem. Again, I would try to help them get through it as much as possible by making them get used to a daily routine.
I would try to let them trust other people like a godmother or grandmother and let them play with other kids. I would try to get a better daily routine. I would feel bad because maybe it's my fault but then I would try to help my child as much as I could.
1.) I would try to find a way to make the seperation anxiety go away, so that they don't have it anymore. 2.) I would be a little worried because I wouldn't know what they did when I was away, if they did something bad because they had seperation anxiety.
I get that but I feel like there isn't a way to make it go away completely just like not as severe or bad. I agree with being worried because you wouldn't know how they behaved since you were gone for awhile or whatever.
i would try to help him get used to it because it can happen allot so you have to prpare for it if my child had that i would try to help him through all of it and teach him that it happens and just try to teach him to stay calm and i would tell peole who hang with him or teachers that he has it
Okay, I feel like telling his friends would make them think that there is something wrong with him and maybe they might not want to hang out with him anymore and maybe they might treat him differently. I kinda feel the same way with teachers. That maybe they might start treating him differently.
Ok so me being a person with sever anxiety socialy and just in general i would try everything in my power to try and make sure my children do not end up with as bad or more perfuribly no anxiety like this what so ever. i would feel reallyhorible and probly feel like i had failed at parenting so that my children end up better then i am at this point in life.
I honestly agree with you, about feeling like I failed as a parent if my child had this. I feel like no matter what you do when you find out your child has this, that you won't be able to fix it or make it go away. You can try a lot of different things, but I feel like most of them won't work.
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