![]() When a child is anxious about going to school, the first and most important thing to do is validate their feelings. The earlier parents recognise something's going wrong, the quicker they can start supporting their child, Woodward says. "Home is their safe space and sometimes they just don't feel like they've got the ability to get themselves out into a space where they feel slightly challenged."Įmotionally based school avoidance can start as reticence and become a reflexive pushback, she says. Often it's the transition from home to school that's tricky for them, rather than school itself. Not wanting to go to school is common for children and can be a response to many different things, Woodward tells Kathryn Ryan.
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