Do you remember taking your driver’s test? The sweaty palms, the sleepless nights, the inability to think about anything else and the utter fatigue from all the energy being drained out of you by nagging worry?
Stress is part of life. In manageable proportions, it can be healthy and promote productivity, but anxiety in excessive doses is like driving through life with the handbrake on. It inhibits performance. So it’s important to find ways to play that move your child forward by reducing the development of overwhelming anxiety.
WHAT DOES OVER-ANXIOUS MEAN?
Children with generalised anxiety disorder experience:
EXCESSIVE WORRY The over-anxious child finds her mind being nagged by concern. Worry bothers and distracts her from her tasks like the buzz of a hovering mosquito about to draw blood.
She is unable to combat her worry
