re: What is it with young kids now having so many “anxiety” issues?

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Can you people not google? Or do you just want answers from a bunch of uneducated assholes who will say the worst about the kids and their parents?

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Guess it never occurred to you someone might want to hear other people’s thoughts an opinions on a subject. You know, like that you’d find on a frickING INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD.

Now go take your anxiety meds cause I know you need them.

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a thermometer will tell you it's getting hotter.

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Well...it is July 2nd...

There have been multiple studies linking several things to the rise in anxiety among children and young adults. They include helicopter parenting, lack of outdoor playtime, lack of boundaries/discipline, lack of unstructured playtime, too much electronic screen time, and our cultural obsession with safety. Children need and crave boundaries and routines, but also the freedom to explore and imagine within those boundaries.

I remember getting bored sometimes during the summer, but my mother (thankfully) was adamant that the Nintendo was only an option on Friday night, so we had to go figure out something to do (and we always did). As it turns out, being bored is a crucial part of a child’s development as it forces them to be imaginative and creative in order to pass the time. Nowadays too many parents think they are being awesome parents by making sure every hour of every day is filled with planned activities, but the opposite is true.

Being outside is equally important. Children’s sensory abilities and self-confidence are developed through climbing, running, jumping, etc. Of course that results in skinned knees, bruises, and the occasional broken bone, but the alternative is unathletic children who are afraid of everything, don’t understand how to experience and interact with nature, and as a result suffer from lack of self-confidence.

Finally, insanely over-protective parents are strangling their children’s natural maturation. Part of growing up is learning how to eventually fend for yourself. The more self-responsibility you develop the more self-confidence you gain, leading young adults to leave home with the feeling that they are ready and capable of taking on the obstacles life has in store for them. Parents today go to great lengths to ensure that their children are taken care of, but this has severe side-effects. When I went to college my folks gave me the old family station wagon, some bedding, a few cooking items, and $100. That was it. I felt like I was about to start the greatest adventure of my life. Me and my friends salvaged furniture from the dumpsters, worked whatever jobs we could find to pay the rent, and generally had a blast, revelling in our new-found freedom. Now parents spend weeks setting up their kids apartments, accompany them to register for classes and talk to counselors, make sure they join all the right clubs/organizations, check their homework assignments (sometimes even do them for them) and even go to class in rare cases. It’s just too much.

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Imagine you’re a kid sitting in a classroom doing your schoolwork.

Then suddenly you start sweating, your heart rate goes up and you lose concentration. You feel like this impending doom is going to happen and you’re going to lose all control.

Nothing triggered it that you know of. It just happened. That’s what ppl with anxiety go through and it’s hell.

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Sounds like hell. What I’m wondering is why is it happening to so many kids now compared to in the past. Again I ask, what has changed? What is the cause of so many young people now having such anxiety?

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There have been multiple studies linking several things to the rise in anxiety among children and young adults. They include helicopter parenting, lack of outdoor playtime, lack of boundaries/discipline, lack of unstructured playtime, too much electronic screen time, and our cultural obsession with safety. Children need and crave boundaries and routines, but also the freedom to explore and imagine within those boundaries.

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So basically it boils down to parental failure is what you’re saying?

Classic Darth thread

Need pics

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Now go take your anxiety meds cause I know you need them.

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are you mocking mental illness? It takes a real pos to do so. And I don’t take anything for anxiety

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Guess it never occurred to you someone might want to hear other people’s thoughts an opinions on a subject.

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sure getting a bunch of uneducated a-hole’s opinions who hate young people and mental illness makes much more sense than reading what a professional thinks

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sure getting a bunch of uneducated a-hole’s opinions who hate young people and mental illness makes much more sense than reading what a professional thinks

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What if I hate old sane people too?

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So basically it boils down to parental failure is what you’re saying?

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Pretty much