Sometimes, children and teenagers display behavioral changes
that adults do not understand. Those changes cause difficulties in the school setting
and at home adding more stress to their parent’s lives. Very often, adults think
that those behavioral changes are due to the age or to the child or teen’s
personality, but actually, often times those behaviors are caused by stress.
Like adults, children and teenagers can feel stressed out
for different reasons: the pressure of keeping good grades, participation in many
extra-curricular activities after school, worry to not disappoint their parents
or teachers, worry of losing their friends or not being accepted in the group
of peers, changes in their physical body due to puberty or exams, are some examples.
Additionally, children and teens can perceive their parent’s stress and
concerns which causes more stress in them.
However, children and teenagers express their stress in a different
way than adults do, mostly because they do not know that they have stress or what stress is. Consequently, parents and teachers usually do not realize
that their children or students have stress and therefore, they do not address it
in the right way.
Knowing how to identify these symptoms of stress in our
children or students, is the most important step to provide the right support
to them.
In this link you can find an interesting article to learn
how to identify stress in your child or student.
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