My 8 yr old has severe seperation anxiety

[Nena77]

Should I seek professional help for her? She cries hysterically every morning cuz she does not want to stay in school. Been going on for 2 years since 1st grade, prior to that no problems, loved school!

[karen717]

With God's help, she will come through this better than if it had never happened. It will probably wind up making her a very strong person. Best of luck.

[Nena77]

thank u but I'm new to this.. I dont even know how I got to this website! Dont know what the heck I'm doing... lol.. that teacher is teaching at a high school  now.. she ruined my daughter's first years of school experience becuz of her my daughter has devoloped migraines and abdominal migraines and has been hospitalized several times for it. I just leave her in God's hands, he will take care of her.

[karen717]

By the way, if you need to talk or vent, send me a message.

[karen717]

That is soooo sad. I hate to know that someone we trust our children with for so many hours a day could do something so horrible. GOOD for you for getting her out. I only pray she is not only out of the system but out of teaching for good. No one deserves to have a teacher like that. This is a hard one. Research shows it takes 3 excellent teachers to make up for what one crappy (not the correct technical term) teacher does. I feel your desperation but have no solution. I am so sorry you and especially your child had to go through this. I felt it was probably connected to a bad experience.

[Nena77]

actually I'm a teacher too and at her school. Something did happen, her 1st grade teacher traumatized her.. was very mean to her and her classmates... I reported her and it went on and on til I went to the school board, when they didnt do anything about it I took her to a psychiatrist and when he faxed that letter to the school is when they decided to change her out of that class, but the damage was already done... she would still cry saying that teacher would find her and stare in her face.. to make the story short I was able to fight and get that teacher out of the school.. my daughter was very relieved but scarred, ever since then she has a very hard time. She's very smart and prior to that incident always loved school and has never had a problem with any classmates or other teachers.

[karen717]

I teach elementary school. Did something happen 2 yrs ago at school? It sounds to me like it might not be so much separation anxiety as something she associates with school. Was she possibly bullied? Did she have friends? This deserves some reflective thought. Try to remember what things she would come home and say to you when she liked school and what she says now. They will not always come out and tell you. You have to be a detective and figure it out. It really makes me think it's something she doesn't want to face again at school. A negative experience can stay with them for a very long time and carry over from year to year.