Stress can damage your child’s brains.
Is your child stressed? Are you stressing your child too much with high expectations from them for achievements that you yourself were not able to achieve?
Nowadays, kids are facing a lot of stress and lead highly structured lives from the time they wake up to the time they sleep. They have their schooling, co-curricular activities, after school tuition classes, piano lessons, computer lessons, language classes and religious lessons. It is no wonder kids feel bored when left alone to their own resources.
They have not learned how to play. They need high intense stimulation to their physical senses such as bright vivid colours, high sound intensities and animation. An increasing number of students come from broken families or face at least one major stress factor.
Studies have shown that high levels of stress may physically scar a child’s brain. It was found that hippocampus, a brain structure that is linked with memory and emotion had reduced in volume in children with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
These children were less capable of dealing with stress and anxiety. They also had higher blood levels of a stress hormone called cortisol, which has been shown to kill hippocampal cells in animals.
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Stress referred to here has to be extreme to cause the damage. We are not talking about the stress of doing your homework or fighting with the dad.
