Tips to Ease Back-to-School Anxiety

Mount Sinai Parenting Center: As the back-to-school season approaches, it’s not uncommon for young children to experience butterflies in their stomachs. Back-to-school feelings of anxiety are a natural and often healthy response to change.

The team at the Mount Sinai Parenting Center at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital has developed some simple and effective ways to help your child learn how to get through the discomfort of uncertainty. Remember your job as a parent is not to spare your child the anxiety, it is to help them prepare for, sit with, and manage their feelings of anxiety.

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