Children With Anxiety

It is a sign of the times when an organization’s motto is “Transforming the weight of the world into a world of possibilities” – for children.

At worrywisekids.org, parents of one of the millions of children who suffer from excessive fears and anxieties can get help for their kids.

The organization’s mission is to improve the quality of life for anxious children and their families by providing parents, educators, and mental health professionals with comprehensive, user-friendly information on the full range of anxiety disorders.

Some kids are natural worriers as evidenced by one eight-year-old, who after hearing about the Tsunami last year asked his mom “What if a wave comes through our house?”

At a recent recovering meeting, Brandy’s ten-year-old son, Julian worried that his presentation wasn’t good enough, so much so that he cried afterwards and ran outside.

“He’s just a little Alanon in the making,” Brandy told her friends, worried herself.

Without intervention kids are thrown daily to pick up any danger, and distort any risk.

Even in the best of situations all children experience some anxiety in the form of worry, apprehension, dread, fear or distress, according to worrywisekids.org.

From toddlers to teens life’s challenges may be met with a temporary retreat from the situation, a greater reliance on parents for reassurance, a reluctance to take chances, and a wavering confidence, according to the organization’s website.

Typical childhood fears start in infancy, says the group. In school-age children, each year, with access to new information, children begin to fear real world dangers – fire drills, burglars, storms, illness, or drugs. Anxiety is considered a disorder not based on what a child is worrying about but rather how that worry is impacting a child’s functioning.

Robin, a single mom of two girls, says her older daughter is “more intense, like I was which worries me.”

Barbara, another single mom of two, says her daughter Grace worries a lot.