I believe that many people have only heard that adults can be anxious, but it turns out that children can also be anxious, and that these anxieties can also have an impact on their height. Today, I will introduce to you what the impact of anxiety in children in the end, and how we should help children to reduce stress. Daniel Pace, a child psychologist at the New York State Psychological Institute, and his colleagues followed 716 children from age 9 to 18 for nine years and found that girls who felt nervous were 5.08 centimeters shorter than girls who felt happy. Since the girls with nervousness and anxiety were not born short, psychologists speculate that emotions probably inhibit the normal production of hormones that govern height. Girls are more likely to be anxious than boys. Experts analyze that negative emotions such as nervousness and anxiety may inhibit the normal secretion of a hormone that is specifically responsible for body growth and development. The study found that this phenomenon was more common in girls and less so in boys. Psychologists believe this may be related to the different physiological responses to stress between men and women. Other studies have shown that boys are better able to “adjust” to the same intensity of stress, while girls tend to be in the “grip” of chronic negative emotions. Further research has also shown that two types of stress and anxiety are directly related to height growth. One, which comes primarily from the family, is called “separation tension,” which is more common in the preschool age group, where girls are reluctant to be separated from their parents, even for short periods of time, because of separation fears. They may not want to sleep in separate rooms from their parents, or they may cry or pretend to be sick and not want to go to school. Psychologist Pace notes that at least 5 percent of American girls are victims of these height-impairing anxieties. He believes that preschool and post-school girls have many things that are enough to cause mental stress, including parental relationships, family finances, their own appearance, learning ability, social skills and mannerisms, etc. If not handled well, they may form long-term tension and anxiety. The number of children who come to the clinic because of short stature is increasing, indicating that parents are paying more attention to their children’s height and other growth problems. But sadly, nearly 20% of the children are not treated due to delay. Psychologists point out that the anxiety faced by school-age children is often related to academics. According to experts, this anxiety is particularly pronounced in children who usually do well or who place a high value on grades, and girls are usually more early and therefore more likely to have problems than boys. The most common type of anxiety is test anxiety, which is caused by test or study anxiety, on the one hand, because the score is too high; on the other hand, because the expectations are too high. Once this kind of anxiety occurs, girls are more affected. If things do not develop towards their expectations, it is easy for them to lack self-confidence, bitterness and low self-esteem, so that they are in a long-term state of depression, tension and fear. This is the time for parents to set the right attitude and not get too hung up on their child’s grades. They should have an accurate expectation of their child’s ability and should encourage them to “just do their best and not force the score.” When your child is nervous and anxious, try to help them relax. In severe cases, consult a psychologist. In addition, girls tend to show excessive nervousness and anxiety about interpersonal relationships, and are afraid of strangers or of interacting with people, and their anxiety about interpersonal relationships is often much more severe than that of boys. Parents should pay attention to the interpersonal problems of girls. Parents should encourage their children to deal with different people, and when they encounter problems, tell them how to solve them and let her solve them by herself, but at the same time, they should constantly pay attention to the process. Parents either don’t understand their children or don’t have patience and improper education methods, which leads to nervousness and anxiety, and then to anxiety disorders. Wang Yufeng, a researcher at Peking University’s Institute of Mental Health, points out that mild anxiety can be transferred through early intervention and family assistance, but severe anxiety is more harmful and can affect children’s intellectual development and induce depression, low self-esteem and other mental illnesses, requiring comprehensive treatment. Getting rid of emotional baggage parents is the key The key to solving children’s psychological problems also lies in the parents. Experts believe that, on the one hand, we should create a good family environment and scientific family education for children, and create a good family atmosphere; on the other hand, parents should understand the psychological characteristics of children, their curiosity, like to imitate the characteristics should be given to understand, children should not be demanding, but should be raised from childhood to face difficulties, to overcome difficulties spirit. Children’s behavior should be carefully monitored, and when psychological problems are detected, they should be treated in a timely manner. The psychologist will make planned and systematic adjustments to achieve the purpose of treatment. Experts say that prevention is more important than cure for children’s psychological problems, and the key to determining whether a child has a tendency to anxiety disorders is to: observe whether the child is clearly different from other children in terms of emotions and behavior; there is a large discrepancy with the child’s previous emotions and behavior; there are very disproportionate to the child’s age characteristics. Generally speaking, a child with mild anxiety can be corrected. Experts point out that first of all, parents should manage their own emotions, parents are prone to nervousness, anxiety, lack of self-confidence and other anxious personality will be reflected in the child; even if there are difficult to deal with things, in front of the child should also behave confidently, calm, and avoid fussing. When a child is troubled by anxiety, parents should provide adequate psychological support. At this time, what children need most is psychological support from their mothers and fathers, they want their mothers and fathers to be relaxed and actively look for coping strategies together with themselves, and parental intervention will gradually dilute the child’s feelings of anxiety. Parents should also adjust their psychological state, because the causes of children’s growth disorders are complex, this time do not give children too much mental pressure, so as not to increase tension and anxiety, affecting their normal growth, and may miss the best age for children to regain their height. Children’s healthy growth should ensure psychological health, as parents should pay attention to the child’s psychological stress reduction, too much pressure is easy to cause children’s psychological problems, such as tension, anxiety, etc., and these psychological problems become an important factor in the child’s failure to grow tall.