Prefeitura de Santa Rosa 2023

Instruction: answer questions 41 to 50 based on the following text.

Subtle ways parents create anxiety without realizing it

1. Anxiety isn’t just an adult issue. Clinical research indicates that millions of children struggle
2. with anxiety symptoms, with a recent analysis putting the number as high as 20.5% of youth
3. worldwide.
4. “Sometimes anxiety can be hard to pinpoint as kids can manifest anxiety in different
5. ways,” said Dr. Khadijah Booth Watkins, associate director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy
6. Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital. “This can be due to many factors such as the type of
7. anxiety they’re experiencing, their age, or their language skills”.
8. While some kids experience physical symptoms like stomachaches, racing heartbeats and
9. headaches, others exhibit emotional responses like increased tantrums or clinginess. Still, others
10. become withdrawn and stop participating in activities or engaging with peers.
11. Even if you do not intend to create anxiety, some common behaviors and comments from
12. parents can make kids feel anxious.
13. “We have to remember that our kids are quite attuned to what is going on with us as their
14. caregivers”, Booth Watkins said. “They are both listening to our words and paying close attention
15. to our body language. If we are struggling with anxiety ourselves, we have to be deliberate in
16. managing our stress and distress, and model healthy coping skills and strategies which will be
17. key in you helping your child manage their anxiety”.
18. Just as you need to put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others, you should
19. address your own anxiety struggles to support your children through theirs.
20. “Anxiety is a normal part of life”, said Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, a clinical psychologist at
21. Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts. “Everyone needs coping strategies for it. One of the
22. most important things you can do as a parent is to help your child learn the unique toolkit of
23. skills that helps them deal with anxiety”.

(Avalaible in: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parents-kids-anxiety-subtle_l_63c1eb61e4b0d6f0ba04f867 –

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