Anxiety is a way we humans have evolved to protect ourselves. In threatening situations, our brains release a string of responses that result in rapid heart rate, sweating, trembling, hyperventilating ...

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Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which ...

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As the first day of school approaches, many children feel nervous about going back to class. For little ones starting preschool for the first time, the transition to school can seem even more daunting ...

The pandemic’s lingering effects and chronic screen time make it hard for anxious kids to stay in school, says BU researcher, but parents can help by “praising instances of bravery” For children and ...

FILE – Dr. Gene Beresin, executive director of the Clay Center for Healthy Minds at Mass General, says caregivers have to assume that kids of all ages are seeing overwhelming images online as a ...

Gloria L. Huang wrote her debut middle-grade novel 'Kaya of the Ocean' to honor kids with anxiety. These shows and movies do the same Gloria is a novelist and short story writer. She studied fiction ...

If your child often complains of a stomachache before school, a big game or a test, it may not just be “nerves.” Experts say ...

Existential anxiety and giftedness seem to go hand in hand, which makes sense if you think of giftedness as, at least in part, a preoccupation with problem-solving. Death and life’s meaning are the ...

Clinical psychologist Elkins’s insightful debut examines anxiety in parent-child dynamics. Many well-meaning parents, she argues, try to protect their kids from anxiety but, in doing so, block them ...