Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere — English Proverb Anxiety is never easy, but add-on the global health crisis, online schooling all-day, and ...

Anxiety is meant to be a fleeting response to stress — like a job interview or crossing a bridge when afraid of heights. Our cortisol and adrenaline spike, we feel panicked, and then, once the moment ...

Parents have been quite anxious to ask me what to do for their child or teen’s feelings of anxiety. Let me try to put ...

School anxiety, a growing concern for children, manifests as intense fear related to attending school, performing ...

A few years ago, our daughter went through a period of intense anxiety and panic. It was often at its worst in the morning, and she would beg us to let her stay home from school. One morning during ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found overactivation in many brain regions, including the frontal and parietal lobes and the amygdala, in unmedicated children with anxiety ...

Last year, our bright, friendly little girl met her teacher for the first time on the Thursday night before school started. This young lady was in pre-K and had never been to “big school” before. She ...

I often tell my daughter, “You can do hard things!” She’s cautious about new and challenging experiences, like making friends and learning how to swim. As a young child, she is still learning what she ...

Rachel Leslie does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

She has some tough words about gentle parenting. A mom who says she accidentally raised “anxious, entitled, people-pleasing ...

When I was first studying psychology, thirty years ago, I learned that about 10-20% of children are born with a temperament that is highly reactive to anything new and unfamiliar. Some of these ...