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Fear and Anxiety – An Age by Age Guide to Common Fears, The Reasons for Each and How to Manage Them

Fear and Anxiety – An Age by Age Guide to Common Fears, The Reasons for Each and How to Manage Them

"As your child learns more about the world, some things will become more confusing and frightening. This is nothing at all to worry about and these fears will usually disappear on their own as your child grows and expands his or her experience. In the meantime, as the parent who is often called on to ease the worried mind of your small person, it can be helpful to know that most children at certain ages will become scared of particular things". http://www.heysigmund.com/age-b

With SATs approaching...some resilience building ways to respond to our children's worries

With SATs approaching...some resilience building ways to respond to our children's worries

SATs will no doubt be on the minds of our pupils and children. Rather than dismissing their worries with, "you'll be fine," perhaps replace their worries with some positive self talk! Practising this regularly is a great life skill and resilience booster. Something as simple as teaching children to notice a worry or critical way of talking to themselves, e.g, "I can't do this, " or "I'm not going to do very well," and replacing with positive self talk e.g, "I can do this,"

With SATs approaching...some resilience building ways to respond to our children's worries

With SATs approaching...some resilience building ways to respond to our children's worries

SATs will no doubt be on the minds of our pupils and children. Rather than dismissing their worries with, "you'll be fine," perhaps replace their worries with some positive self talk! Practising this regularly is a great life skill and resilience booster. Something as simple as teaching children to notice a worry or critical way of talking to themselves, e.g, "I can't do this, " or "I'm not going to do very well," and replacing with positive self talk e.g, "I can do this,"

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