Helping Your Child Beat Back-To-School Anxiety

Quoted: Dr. Marcia Slattery, director of the UW Health Anxiety Disorder Program, said you’ll likely notice that younger school-age children may become more irritable as the onset of school approaches. “The grade school kids definitely start asking more,” she said. “They start wanting to have detail about what’s going to happen, basically trying to say, ‘What are the unknowns that I need to know about?’So, more questions, more seeking information.”