Too Much Stress in Today's Children

Have you ever seen what stress can do to a kid? It can turn the nicest kid into an aggressive and hateful person. As told stress has a huge effect on people these days, comes in many forms and levels. The very first form of stress is, “Acute stress is the most common form of stress. It comes from demands and pressures of the recent past and anticipated demands and pressures of the near future.”() The second type of stress is episodic stress which is frequent acute stress and is caused (). Then there finally is chronic stress that can wreck the person physically and mentally (). It is caused by people who were in a miserable situation and can’t find a way out of it. All these stresses can take their tolls on people but children in general take it the worst, because they are not mentally equipped to handle it yet. Have you ever wonder why kids can seem so stressed on days. Well it’s because,” the pressure to excel, couple with the turmoil of puberty and exposure to negative influences via internet and their peers is surely a potent recipe for a mental meltdown”(ling) and overall you have to wonder even more, what effect does this have on kids? There are many long term and short term effects that can be give in to kids under stress.

So, we all have to wonder what causes kids to have this stress. A child’s stress can come from school. This stress can come from the need to succeed and score high, because in the world today there are such high standards. Especially, when it comes to colleges. Another, cause of stress parents and the people around them. Parents can cause stress from being worried and so concerned for school. They can also stress them by proxy. By this I mean that if a parent is over stressed then it can rub off on to ...

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...he end the stress becomes to much for them and they just lose it and start killing each other til they get rescued. This is just a group of mostly little kids and some preteen. So, it begs the question what would happen if these kids in our real life become to stressed. We already seen it and just let it happen like with all the suicides and the columbine Massacre. We see the horrors of children who become over stressed all the time but try not to look at it, because we don’t want to see it. So just imagine its your child who is being over stressed, would you want anything to happen to them?

Works Cited

Beah, Ishael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy soldier .Newyork: farrar, strausand giroux,

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Ling chock suat.” kids no longer Bully But Rape And Kill.” New Straits.09 Jan. 2014:014.Elibrary.web.