Posts Tagged ‘children’

Anxiety in children

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Teaching children to manage anxiety is something that should go hand in hand with potty training and learning to ride a bike. With 10 per cent of 5 – 16 year olds in the UK suffering from a clinically diagnosed health problem, learning to cope with anxiety and stress is now just as important as read more »

Too many exams make children ill

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Sitting more than eight GCSEs can actually make school pupils ill, reports BBC News. The new children’s commissioner Maggie Atkinson believes this new revelation could be related to the fact that society puts children under too much pressure to succeed. She believes that limiting exams and reducing the homework load would enable children to have read more »

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