Children will find that repeated success of attending school in the face of anxiety, that their anxiety response will diminish and ultimately go away, usually within a few days to a couple of weeks. Adolescents and their anxieties While younger children fear the separation from parents, adolescents more-commonly experience something called social anxiety disorder. What we also sometimes see is adolescents have a tendency to displace some of their worries by saying such things as 'well, school's really dumb. I don't want to go. They blame it on the fact that people at the school are no good or that the teachers are no good or that the class is kind of silly and stupid.
Parents see what they think is opposition, when really it is anxiousness.
Give them opportunities for socializing. More importantly, he says, is to seek help from a professional if needed. School isn't the only anxiety-producing situation, Fischer says. Some kids may simply have a predisposition to experience greater anxiety in normally anxiety-producing situations while others feed off their parents fears. That is, if parents are nervous around dogs the children can pick up on that and become nervous, too.