Why Children Are Stressed Out-Scheduling My Girl, Too ! By Tan-Zubiri

In article How Kids Learn Resilience, Paul Tough argues that stress can push a child into a cycle of failure in school, harmfully impacting a child’s education and outside life. He claims that stress is apparent in every student’s life; however some have more and this stress has a direct connection on the child’s success both in school and out. Stress can be caused by many things, such as economic, family, or even social problems. The stress prevents a student from staying focused in school because they are distracted by other problems. Since they are not able to focus, they do not perform well at school, leading to bad grades, which leads to more stress. This cycle continues and the student is unable to learn as the workload gets more complicated.

There are three main types of stress that exists in childhood. These are positive stress, tolerable stress, and toxic stress. Positive stress often caused by brief events experienced by the child, such as disappointment or frustration, and is crucial to developing a healthy response to stressful environments. Tolerable stress is caused by an event which has a profound impact on the child’s life, such as losing a parent or a serious medical condition. Tolerable stress

Many studies have proven that minor stresses can have a harmful impact on children more than the major stresses and can lead to some negative behaviors . children are more vulnerable to the daily stresses when there is a lack of emotion stability or social rejection for example a child who is rejected or ignored by his friends every day can suffer from devastating health problems because of an accumulations of the stresses and make resilience more difficult whereas children can overcome the major stress either during the time or with a caregiver assistance

A condition was starting to take over, in which moms and dads were overscheduling their children to excel in academics and sports. The expectations were rising. The result was soon labeled as the “hurried child syndrome.” Children had to grow up faster to meet the expectations. Millions of stressed-out children are medicated for depression or other symptoms at this moment - six million to be precise, according the Frontline public affairs documentary.

Many of these children while becoming more responsible will try to take on to much and become overwhelmed. Many feel that they are not allowed to ask for help and try to follow the example of their parents, not realizing that their parents often have to ask for the help of others. This can lead to kids become more closed off and very stressed. (Hall, 2008)

As a child enters this world, the relationship between themselves and their parent or caregiver will become the guidelines towards other relationships. With that being said, it is important for parents to know how to maintain their relationship as the child grows. Parents often make the mistake of not continuing to bond with their child since they have done that with them throughout their childhood. With the child’s brain developing throughout the years, the needs they desire may not always be effectively communicated. This can then lead to challenging behaviour. Parents must be educated to become aware of these signs and understand how they may be a signal for distress (Moretti, Obsuth, Mayseless & Scharf, 2012). An argument towards this may be that some children do not act out at all, even when they are under distress. Although this is not typically what is thought of when challenging behaviour is mentioned, any behaviour different from the child’s norm can be challenging. For example, if they become quiet and are hard to talk too, that is challenging behaviour as

To understand this intricate pathway, each set of influencing factors must be analyzed in turn. First, we will consider how SES affects child stress. Noble cites the environment of a low SES household as the reason why children may have increased stress levels. This includes parental stress, chaos, and harsher parenting styles (Noble et al.,

As a parent, you are the one who can assist your child to develop strategies to tackle the stress. Always assure your child that

Distracted parenting is the newest hazard caused by the normalization of cell phone usage in our everyday life according to Deborah Fallows in her article “Papa, Don’t Text: The Perils of Distracted Parenting” originally published in The Atlantic. In an article directed at parents in the technological age, she claims that parents are spending more time focusing on their phones and less time interacting with their babies. This issue can potentially cause long-term problems for their children’s linguistic skills. Fallows herself has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard. She also includes research from two other reputable sources to further validate her claim. Fallows delivers her argument in a short article with appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos, but her article lacks any real opinions put forth by the author, which weakens the impact of the piece.

Used as a stress-buster. Parents may not realize that stress can also get in the way of the life of their children. Most often, we associate stress with adults who face more challenges every day. But children, too, do find themselves all stressed out because of a number of reasons: homework, new lessons to study for tests, projects, teen problems, etc…

Childhood is a stage of life where children learn a variety of things and demonstrate different behaviours. During this stage, children show curiosity and interests to be part of social groups and learn from the others. As part of life, children are exposed to different events from which they might experience stress, anger or even excitement. They express their distress through demonstrating different behaviours such as crying, withdrawing, biting, kicking or clingy behaviour. These behaviours are signs of social and emotional development. Supporting these behaviours and teaching children to self-regulate seems to play a key role on their performance at school. (Bulotsky-Shearer, Dominguez & Bell, 2012, p. 421)

Parenting is said to be magical, delightful experience, yet many parents seem to be frequently short of patience and have frayed nerves. Raising children dominates a parent's life, and leaves little time for personal time and enjoyment. Children require near constant attention, and if they want to do a proper job of it, parents either constantly tend to their brood, or have to hire a babysitter, which can be expensive. As such, parenting can be rather stressful. This is supported by

Childhood stress is something that can be very real for so many children. At times there can be a source of the stress (abuse or a disability), a traumatic even (natural disaster or illness), and at times it can be just something a child is going through. Whatever the reason is behind stress, it is important to be aware of how to manage and recognize stress in your students so that you can attend to their needs when specific stressors may happen. The article that I found addresses many aspects about student stress, including how children react to stress.

Stressful situations send a flood of hormones to the brain and nervous system to prepare the body's defenses (“American Psychological Association Survey Shows Teen Stress Rivals That of Adults”). This can be helpful, but prolonged stress can overload the brain turning a helpful response into a harmful one (“American Psychological Association Survey Shows Teen Stress Rivals That of Adults). In research presented in the 2004 Society for Neuroscience meeting, researchers found that stresses, such as a lack of nurturing in the early years, affected a child's learning and memory later in life (“American Psychological Association Survey Shows Teen Stress Rivals That of Adults”). Children who lived in less-nurturing environments as preschoolers performed worse on memory tests in middle school. (“American Psychological Association Survey Shows Teen Stress Rivals That of Adults”). Puberty can be difficult to deal with, and can trigger stress. The hormones of puberty not only change the body but also the brain. The brain uses 20% of all our blood flow, so adolescent hormones carried in our blood stream affect judgment and feelings (Brain and Behaviour Changes). These hormones makes it easier to become stressful, and increase

Children of all ages involuntary go through childhood stress and the burdens that often times come along with it. Many children go through common struggles such as poverty, divorce and etc. that can not be controlled. Although childhood stress can not be avoided, assistance from adults that have also been through childhood stress and positive tactics to releasing stress can help in the battle of childhood stress and turn it from a negative situation into a positive learning experience.