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One of the tools we use at Academics Plus in our crusade against stress is education.  Our aim is to inform students and parents of the negative consequences of stress; of “case studies” of those who experience stress; of tips, tools and strategies to avoid and/or combat stress; and of practices, such as yoga, meditation, and nutrition to minimize the effects of chronic stress.  Today, we would like to share an article written by Elaine Gaston and Steve Palisan on “stressed out students.”

The article focuses mainly on 11-year old students and the stress they experience handling accelerated classes and programs, as well as managing the transition from elementary into middle-school.  The coping mechanism discussed by Jim Rogers, a certified family life educator and owner of Parents Care, a company that offers family enrichment programs is to ‘run away’ emotionally, kinda like the flight aspect of the flight-or fight response to stress.  A more drastic response is to run away physically, as one student in Myrtle Beach actually did to escape the pressures at school.  Rogers also mentions however, later in the article, that not all stress is bad.  In small amounts, stress can be motivating.

As usual, we encourage students, their parents, their educators, and anyone who interacts with the young people in our lives, to be aware of what is going on with them; learn how to decipher tell-tale symptoms of overwhelming stress or anxiety; talk to students and ask questions.  As adults who are all too familiar with the effects of daily stress, it is our responsibility to help the younger generation have a healthier outlook on life and encourage them to lead more balanced lives.  To read more about the stressed out students discussed in this blog, go directly to the article “Pressure to perform can derail scholastic success.”

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