An easy way to better prepare kids to handle anxiety and keep anxiety-related disorders at bay may lie in the school-based test anxiety interventions, a research said. Anxiety problems are among the most common emotional difficulties youths experience, and are often linked to exposure to disasters. “Test anxiety interventions may be a practical strategy for conducting emotion-focused prevention and intervention …

One of the first steps in encouraging healthy self-esteem in children is to establish good relationship with them. Persons in relationship are ultimately what the world is all about. Relationships which are mutually loving and caring, honest and supportive create an atmosphere for healthy human growth. This chapter’s eight principles for nurturing self-esteem in children focus on building such relationships. …

As parents, we are all concerned about our children’s future. In fact, we all do our best to help them achieve success. No doubt, helping them acquire good academic qualifications is important, but it is equally vital that we inculcate certain invaluable life skills in our children that will ensure their success in every sphere of life. To develop these …

Why, asked the Little Bear. Because… answered Papa Bear. Answering the little one’s questions should be an important part of every adult’s agenda. For, that is the only way he can learn. All children have two wonderful resources for learning – imagination and curiosity. As a parent, you can make your child aware of the environment around by leading him …

If as parent or teacher you are always the listener, children do not get a chance to show acceptance of you. One sided sharing fosters inequality in relationship. Both sides in a relationship need to be listeners and listened-to. For example, my daughters come home from school tell me all their gripes. It might be that sometimes children feel all …

One of the best ways to take the stress out of housework is to involve children in it. Chores are a good way to teach children to be responsible and to clean up after they’ve done with playing. Children yearn to be a part of the adult world – they are constantly playing at going to office, dressing up like …

Places conducive to relaxation offer better changes for caring relationships to develop, especially if children feel threatened. When you are about to tell a child something difficult, don’t do it in the middle of the playground, the middle of the street, the middle of a classroom, or the middle of a family. If it’s something that’s personal and perhaps difficult, …

When children are caught up in strong feelings or imminent fears, they need to be connected with positive potentials in the future. Such a connection is best made when you focus on simple concerts facts about the near future. When I was the person who handled emergency service at the clinic on Fridays and encountered someone making suicidal statements either …

The point of telling stories about the failure and misfortune of people dear to you, such as your children, your spouse, or your friends, is that they have failed or gotten into trouble – yet you still like them and accept them as they are. I mention storytelling again because it is such an important technique, especially in dealing with …

Children with low self-esteem generally find it difficult to see and name the positive specialness in themselves. Instead they tend to sprinkle their conversations with negative self-image comments. David, who was eleven, would have been tall for his age if he stood up straight. His large brown eyes gave the impression he was trying to hide from the world. Not …