Anxiety in young children
62Adults can be in a deep anxiety, as well as the children. With the fast development of the society, a child's world rapidly expands. It is not strange for a child in anxiety. However, the anxiety children feeling can be much easier understood and defined than adults feel.
Teach Your Child to Control His or Her Life
A child between the age of 3 and 6 may fear monsters when he or she stays at home lonely. We all know that there are no monsters in the world, but this is a real fear for a child of that age. Toddlers want to stay with their parents all the time and will cry if you separate him or her from their parents. This is called separate anxiety. Babies may feel anxiety when they meet a stranger. Do you have this experiences that a baby puts his or her head in the parent's lap when you look at and smile to them? That is anxiety in the real. Preteen children worry about some concrete things, such as natural disasters, accidents or war. That is because they have already had their own ideas about the world.
Some anxiety can be gone away when the baby grows older. The baby may not fear the stranger when they get a little bit older. But new fears replace the old one. The baby stops fearing being without their parent (separation anxiety), but starts fearing monsters, and once they past that anxiety, they start fearing strangers.
Children need to be sure that they are safe. Once your children are in anxiety, you have to determine what they worry about and help him or her to dispel the fear.
The signs of anxiety in a child include clinging, being impulsive, nervous movements, trouble sleeping, sweaty or clammy hands, an increased heart rate, breathing faster than usual, feeling nauseous, frequent headaches, and frequent stomach aches.
