How to Deal with Anxiety & Sleeplessness in Your Child
Jul 05, 2021, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Anxiety and stress are not only for adults. Studies state that many children aged 3 to 17 years experience anxiety issues. Also, the rate of intense anxiety among teenagers is increasing markedly. It is common for a child to get anxious when they come across new situations and experiences. More often, they get adjusted to the situation after the initial confusion. However, there can be instances where anxiety among the child gets in the way of their normal thoughts, emotions, social, and physical development.
Presently, as we all know, COVID-19 changed a different aspect of our life. As nowadays, the discussions about the virus dominate the news. All these are found to elevate the anxiety level of children.
Research also suggests that anxiety can affect rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. This is the phase of sleep when one tends to have vivid dreams. If you have anxiety, the dreams may be disturbing or turn into nightmares that wake you.
Just as anxiety can affect sleep, sleep can affect anxiety. Sleep anxiety is a common characteristic of insomnia, wherein the individual begins to experience anxiety during the day and evening about poor sleep, which may help cause another night of bad sleep.
Get answers to all your queries in this Live workshop. Learn how to handle a child's Anxiety and sleeplessness with Child Behavioral Specialist Kiran Tevtiya in this Parentune live. Join now and ask your questions to Kiran in this parentune workshop.
| Jul 05, 2021
What are the signs of anxiety in a 10 year old child? My girl remains angry from us most of the times. She would lose her cool quickly and even hit her younger sister until she feels revenged for a small prank . I do not understand why is she being edgy and overreacts to even small provocation meant for fun. Is this normal for her age?
| Jul 05, 2021
Madam I have recently noticed my 7 year old while playing games on computer becomes irritable and has started to use wrong Language which none of us at home speak . Also he plays for 5-6 hours and on switching it off he starts crying. He has become short tempered and cranky . Kindly give suggestions on how to make him behave well.
| Jul 05, 2021
Hello! My son's name is Ronak. He is 6 years old. he gets angry Very soon, then he starts crying and next moment he starts throwing away whatever he get hang of. Please tell me how to make a 6 year old calm down when he is angry and frustrated. As seeing him behave like this makes me angry too and I shout on him when he throws away things.
| Jul 05, 2021
Hello. My daughter is 7 years old. I have noticed that she gets angry soon and does some weird action like touching nose eyes hands feet and moves hands and feet in same direction repeatedly. She is not allowed to go out due to this pandemic. She is not paying attention on studies and online classes and watches tv and demands for phone and other unavailable things. Are these signs of anxiety? What should I do?
| Jul 05, 2021
My son is a preterm kid born at 29 weeks... His sleep patterns is quite disturbed... He doesn't sleep early.. And he becomes agitated severely even for simple reasons.. It has become very difficult for us to control him when he gets excited like this.. What can be done to avoid this tantrums
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Hello Ma'am ! My child who is 6 years old of late has been taking lot of time to sleep. He keeps on tossing and turning on the bed most of the time . He would get up and roam around in the room saying I can't sleep. He is not allowed to watch gadgets before bedtime. His hands also sweat a lot. Is this a sign of some underlying issue such as anxiety? How can I deal with it?