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Managing the stress test: How parents can help kids deal with back-to-school anxiety

by Elizabeth Englander and Katharine Covino-Poutasse, for The Conversation

AS A CHILD, I had a great deal of anxiety. If you’ve ever seen me speak in public, that might surprise you. But anxiety among children is extremely common and affects almost all children, to varying degrees. During pre-pandemic times, researchers noted that as many as 7 percent of children had a diagnosable anxiety disorder that disrupted […]