Sentences with phrase «anxiety about grades»

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Challenge Success believes that our increasingly competitive world has led to tremendous anxiety about our children's» futures and has resulted in a high pressure, myopic focus on grades, test scores and performance.

Some momstown mamas have kids going to their very first preschool, and some are veterans with kids in the big «grades»... but everyone has some anxiety and excitement about going back to school!

Children who have generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, experience constant, excessive, and uncontrollable fears about any number of everyday things such as grades, family issues, performing well in sports, being on time, or even natural disasters.

Joan Wilson, a sixth grade teacher whose class was filmed for the movie, said that as a former fifth grade teacher she realized some students» anxieties about the middle - school transition ran deep.

School grades and jobs were cited most often as the primary concerns of the 6,000 9th - through 12th - grade students included in the survey, followed by anxieties about attending college, according to Russell J. Watson, who conducted the research as a doctoral candidate at Northern Illinois University.

Now my gods son, who is in 2nd grade has such anxiety about this weekly testing that he gets physically sick.

A friend's 4th grade son told me he had a lot of anxiety about the test and never wants to do it again.

For instance, you getting upset about his or her bad grades may spark an argument because the bad grades are the result of bullying or childhood anxiety.

Some kids get excited about seeing their friends and advancing to a new grade, but many other kids in Michigan experience intense anxiety about entering a new environment.

Explain that he or she is in good health and his or her physical symptoms are probably due to concerns other things — perhaps about grades, homework, relationships with teachers, anxieties over social pressure or legitimate fears of violence at school.

We do a lot of therapy with teens, and teenagers talk to us a lot in therapy about what they're dealing with — depression, anxiety, school, eating problems, bullying, trauma, preparing for college, grades, sex and sexuality.