Anxiety
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Anxiety is the normal emotion that most people experience in a lifetime. It refers to a feeling of being nervous, having fear, worry, and having no ease on somethings. This disorder can lead to physical symptoms, including a high breathing rate, heavy sweat, and rapid heartbeat. Most people experiencing an anxiety disorder cannot do activities properly daily (Emerson et al., 2019).
Problem statement: Despite widespread anxiety, most parents are always unaware of the common stranger anxiety that occurs in infants and toddlers.
Specialists in child care have found that anxiety is a normal emotion that is always experienced by everyone during there lifetime. However, in child development, fear is still common in a specific age and stage of life. Most parents are always unfamiliar with this type of anxiety; thus, they intend to have no common response to help the infant or toddler overcome the situation. Most of this case of fear come up when children meet new people in their life. One of the intended goals is to provide parents with the best solution in dealing with anxiety cases rather than rushing to the hospital without further guidance on what they should do. This is because higher exposure to anxiety by a child without parental intervention can lead to the emergency of other mental problems (Crum and Moreland, 2017).
Exploring this problem enables the parents to be aware of various methods of dealing with anxiety in children without necessarily taking them to a psychologist since it is normal for some children to get afraid when exposed to darkness and other peers. Parental solutions for anxiety can also prevent children from having distress and interference in their lives, leading to developmental milestones. The combination of excessive stress and disruption in life explains why anxiety is no longer normal and has become a major problem (Gavic et al., 2018).
Providing a solution to this problem will be of benefit to the children as well as the parents. This is because a parent is the most significant figure in a child’s life. Though it is always difficult for a family to deal with a child struggling form anxiety, the parent needs to offer support through learning to cope and conquer a fear (Crum and Moreland, 2017).
References
Crum, K. I., & Moreland, A. D. (2017). Parental stress and children’s social and behavioral outcomes: The role of abuse potential over time. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26(11), 3067-3078. Retrieved from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-017-0822-5
Emerson, L. M., Ogielda, C., & Rowse, G. (2019). A systematic review of the role of parents in the development of anxious cognitions in children. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 62, 15-25. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0887618517305868
Gavin, L., Tadin, A., Mihanovic, I., Gorseta, K., & Cigic, L. (2018). The role of parental anxiety, depression, and psychological stress level on developing early‐childhood caries in children. International journal of pediatric dentistry, 28(6), 616-623. Retrieved from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ipd.12419