Summer has flown by and the school year is rapidly approaching.
Many children experience minor difficulties in adjusting to the start of the school year.
With the help of parents and school staff, most of these situations resolve themselves within the first few weeks of school, and our children quickly fall into their school routines. However for some children the start of school, or their first experience with pre-school or daycare, can be much more difficult and problematic than what we would normally expect. The essential feature of SAD is excessive anxiety, for at least two weeks, concerning separation from parents to whom the child is attached. When separation does occur the child may experience anxiety to the point of panic. It should be emphasized that some degree of separation anxiety is a normal part of a child's development.