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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't read all the responses, but here's my 2 cents"

1.) School curriculum is no longer developmentally appropriate and it's stressing too many kids out.

2.) Teachers are stressed with all the demands and parents are stressed jugging careers and kids without enough job security. Kids feed off parental anxiety.

3.) Chemicals in foods and pesticides

4.) Not enough sleep and down time.

BOOM!![/quote]

I agree with 1, 2, and 4.  Not sure about 3, but open to this being an issue.  I also think that kids can feel as if they have no control over their lives more so now than when we were kids.  Helicopter parents breed kids who are afraid to not be perfect or simply don't know how to do some things. Add to that exposure to day to day happenings, and they can worry because they can't fix it and have to rely on others.   I also think this is an easy diagnosis for a pediatrician, after we went to specialist ped for a child with issues focusing and got a diagnosis of anxiety based on a questionnaire my kid filled out in the exam room.  No testing for the focus issue that we had thought we were seeing the ped for.  We eventually had other testing, and the anxiety was considered part of inattentive ADHD which if controlled, should cause the anxiety to go away.  So, yes, maybe there is more, but maybe that is what the peds are looking to treat these days.[/quote]

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