Apparently, little children are meant to be afraid all the time. Parents should know if their child’s state of anxiousness suddenly changes, right? The signs can never be hidden unless such parent is not vigilant enough. Typically, your child would express his/her fears and worries, even if kept.

Unfortunately, some children won’t vocalize their worries, and anxiety isn’t always that obvious. But, with the actions, a watchful parent should be able to filter out the main issue.

When something just doesn’t seem right with your child, your first reaction as a good parent should be to check for his/her physical status (might have hurt himself somewhere). It’s your duty to see if there’s something physically wrong. Once that has been taken care of, then you may wonder the psychological cause.

Fear, stress, and anger are psychological health issues and should be treated accordingly before it explodes to something unacceptable.

How can we achieve this?

Children anger can be tricky sometimes, as all they want is to be attended to; your care matters to them even if their actions aren’t right. Kids can be angry for so many reasons. So, don’t take this seriously, since it’s a mere issue. I would say anxiety can be the underlining reason or basis of anger too.

Anxiety results in fear

A teen passing through so many difficulties through the fear instilled in him might be an agent of anger. This is an instance; a parent that pressurizes his child to meet a certain height in the quest to achieve greatness might be a disaster to the aspiring success.

How? Never, should you force your children, rather encourage and show them the right path to whatever they have chosen to do. The only you could do to achieve this is to table out the negativity and instill the positivity through frequent advice in a subtle manner.

Fear results in stress

While it's not always easy to recognize the exact times when kids are stressed out, these are indications, and these are: acting out, mood swings, change in sleep patterns, and bed-wetting, to mention a few. Although they are short-term behavioural changes. Some kids have troubles with the concentration in all ramifications of life, spend a lot of time alone or lack discipline completing schoolwork. By this, they might be withdrawn from social activities.

Reducing Stress

How can you help your kids cope with stress?

Good parenting: Proper rest and good nutrition are good tips to boost your child’s coping skills. Spare some few times with your kids each day. Sometimes kids just feel better when you are with them for fun activities.

Get down on the floor, play with them or just discuss with them how they have spent their day. Please make yourself available, they are your jewels

Talk with them concerning why they are feeling stressed. Together, you can come up with a few solutions by rubbing minds together.

You also can be of help by potentially anticipating stressful situations and preparing kids for them. For example, life challenges. Remind them that some level of stress is normal; let them know that it's OK to feel angry, scared, lonely, or anxious, as other people share those feelings too. Reassure them how important it is to be confident of oneself, urge them always that they can handle any situation that comes their way.

Stress results in anger

Your child is your duplicate. He replicates 70 percent of your actions. So, when you treat him nicely, he returns such behaviour to the society. And, if the reverse is the case, you see the best of madness in him, as I’m a fan of a quote which says; An angry man is a madman.

Also, the more trouble you give him, the less he could withstand if being disturbed outside. We are humans, raise him as one.

A child who is under stress may overreact to minor problems, become clingy, have nightmares, and have drastic changes in his/her academic performance.

Don’t get scared; Here is the prevalence of mental illness in children

Yes! I do understand why it is normal to worry about your child, but, it is somehow intriguing when a parent doesn’t know some few things we teens of today have learnt through the internet. Lol… Just a joke!

The fact is; only about 10% of children and young adults suffer from a mental health issue. And out of those percent, only a small proportion will be a severe mental illness patient.

In order to achieve a positive outcome, it’s important for parents and caregivers to recognize the potential signs of mental illness, tricks to best-handle these childhood disorders when it’s emerging, and to know the appropriate places to seek treatment for the affected child, if the situation requires it.

Now, to the above question, my answer is NO, but I will urge you finish up the article, a special Pleasantry below.

If you discover any strange occurrence

Even if you have recurrently noticed several signs. First, don’t panic, you are not the mental health professional. But, do visit your general practitioner or pediatrician for a consultation, along with your child. Table your concerns privately, and make sure most of your discussions are out of your child’s earshot.

If the case is out of his/her hand, If necessary, he or she will have to refer you to the appropriate care professionals. It might be a psychiatrists, psychologists, school healthcare staff, and other doctors or professionals to mention a few.

A Professional’s View

Mental health professionals advise that parents should not become overly concerned if their child displays one of these signs. The solution is consultation with the specialists.

Bipolar disorder

Schizophrenia

Depression, and

Anxiety disorder

But the presence of two or more is alarming and may warrant a consultation with a psychiatrist.

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU MAKE IT TILL THE END. LEAVING 20 MINS FOR YOUR CHILDREN BY READING THIS REALLY SHOWS HOW LOVELY YOU ARE AS A PARENT.