If your baby is exhibiting any warning signs and symptoms (that are not scientific emergencies; if they’re, get them to the ER), or if you need more in-depth mental health check-ins, do not forget these questions to ask, courtesy of Dr. Eli Lebowitz, Ph.D., director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders at the Yale Child Study Center.
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What are you doing for the duration of recess? Who are you spending time with?
- How is your body feeling? Do you have a belly or headaches?
- Is it smooth so one can doze off?
- Is something making you scared?
- Do you have had any trouble paying interest?
For melancholy (that may go hand in hand with anxiety, and vice versa), ask your baby those questions:
- Do you feel sad?
- Have you been feeling cranky?
- Do you know what’s bothering you?
- Who are your friends now? What do you do with them?
- Do you ever so often desire you weren’t alive at all?
For viable bullying, ask:
- Does bullying happen in your college? Have you seen all of us being bullied?
- Does anybody trouble you at college? Have all of us hit you?
- Has whatever, without a doubt, horrifying took place to you?
Don’t be afraid to invite hard questions,” says Lebowitz. “Asking approximately the mind of death, for example, suggests it’s okay for your child to share with you; in no way does asking show them that it’s not. [Also,] ask yourself how your conduct is converting due to your baby’s difficulties.”
