Child Anxiety Quotes

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another hour that kids are fearfully wondering where their parents have been taken, another hour that trauma deepens.

My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.

A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and the father says, 'He's four years old.' 'He looks at least twelve to me,' says the conductor. And the father says, 'Can I help it if he worries?

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

I worry about my children worrying about me, feeling like they need to be the strong ones. It's not the right order of things.

I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.

Asking your children about their fears or worries about going back to school will help them share their burden.

If you are agitated, children tend to think that they have done something wrong.

When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick.

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

Even though my mom herself was anxious, I think she didn't know how to deal with it in her kid, and my dad just had no conception of what this was about, and sort of didn't even want to acknowledge it.

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.