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At almost 11 years old, River started grade six at a Toronto school this week. Despite the excitement of a new school year, she spent much of her summer wrestling with a single, nagging question: How should she respond if her girlfriends aren’t nice to her?
Anxiety can manifest in more ways than obsessive thoughts, including ways that don’t resemble anxiety at all. Picher says parents should note changes in their kid’s mood and behaviour for signs of mild, moderate and severe anxiety, whether they’re verbalizing their worries or not. “Kids can be externalizers or internalizers,” she says.
“Sometimes, kids have a hard time communicating their feelings because they don’t really know what they’re feeling,” explains Picher. Sometimes therapy can help them verbalize the reason for worries. Other times, simple tweaks you make to your home life can have a soothing effect on their anxiety.
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