Separation Anxieties

A child’s irrational fears of separation from or abandonment by its parents. Not uncommon among young children attending preschool or kindergarten for the first time, separation anxieties usually provoke mysterious aches and other physical symptoms that preclude the child’s leaving home and attending school. Often such symptoms escalate to include nausea, diarrhea, stomach pains, migraine headaches and other serious illnesses.

At a later age, separation anxieties may trigger rebelliousness, including running away or refusal to attend or remain in school. Persistent separation anxieties may require professional psychiatric help. Often, however, such anxieties may be relieved by the parent simply escorting the child to school for a few days and, with the teacher’s permission, spending a few moments in the classroom until formal activities get under way. Separation anxieties often reappear when students must make the transition from elementary to secondary school, when once again children find themselves smallest and youngest at a new school and where they must be independent and find their way from class to class. Lost is the security of a single teacher in a single, all-day classroom. Some anxiety is an inevitable result, but its debilitating effects can be mitigated by frequent preliminary visits to the new school so that students can learn, in advance, what to expect.

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