School Anxiety
Children Tips
Sutter Children's Center, Sacramento

Signs of anxiety:

• Attitude of indifference about school.
• Not enthusiatic about school shopping or talking about school.
• Trouble falling asleep.
• Sudden physical complaints on the morning of the first school day, such as stomachache, headache, etc.

Common fears:

• Being separated fromparents.
• Fear that something bad may happen to their parents while they are in school.
• Scary teachers and/or janitors.
• Mean kids.
• Spooky bathrooms.

Preparing your child for their first day:

• Separate from and reunite with your child.
• Take a car ride to school.
• Walk through the campus, including thebathroom,before school starts.
• Ask the teacher for an autographed picture.
• Arrange a brief welcome-to-school phone call from the teacher.

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