Back-to-School Anxiety: How to Support Your Child's Mental Health
After more than a year of COVID-19 school closures, remote learning and social isolation, feelings about going back to school are more complicated than usual for many children this fall.
Below, some expert advice on how parents can stay connected to their kids, ease reentry anxiety and help smooth the transition to a successful new academic year.
Watch the video to learn 9 ways parents can ease kids' back-to-school anxiety:
As students in the United States begin to safely return to in-person classes, schools must be equipped to deal with the anxiety, stress and interrupted social development caused by COVID-19. Now more than ever, we need to ensure every child has access to mental health services through their school. Urge Congress to pass the Mental Health Services for Students Act.
Top photo: A student peeks out from behind her UNICEF notebook in M'Berra refugee camp in southeastern Mauritania. UNICEF is working with the government and partners to support education programs at the camp, which hosts more than 67,000 refugees, including almost 40,000 children. © UNICEF/UN0470700/Pouget. Video by Tong Su for UNICEF USA.
HOW TO HELP
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War, famine, poverty, natural disasters — threats to the world's children keep coming. But UNICEF won't stop working to keep children healthy and safe.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories — more places than any other children's organization. UNICEF has the world's largest humanitarian warehouse and, when disaster strikes, can get supplies almost anywhere within 72 hours. Constantly innovating, always advocating for a better world for children, UNICEF works to ensure that every child can grow up healthy, educated, protected and respected.
Would you like to help give all children the opportunity to reach their full potential? There are many ways to get involved.
