Stress in kids.

It sure is. This has been going on for years. I had a nervous break down in my later teens and that was many years ago. I do not know why parents can not encourage without pressuring their children. It takes an awful toll that is so very difficult to over come.

My daughter is seven years old right now and she is just now having her first taste of competition in her life by being on the summer swim team. This, I think is healthy for her because I don't think that there is any aspect of our lives that doesn't involve competition to a certain extent. I am not one of those parents that gets upset when she doesn't finish in first place because I think it is equally important to be able to accept defeat in our lives as it is to be victorious.

ya now a days children are also facing stress because there is lot of competition in every field.even in education there is lot of competition and parents also wants their child to cope up .because of this the children becomes stressed.

Hi, I do agree with you, now a days with competition raising expectations of every parents gets high and no parents wants to see their child leave behind other. now a days parents are making their child read books aimed at higher level to make fast development in them. Even children today doesn't play game that will help them develop physically because mental pressure is so much that take every bit of energy out of kid. I think study structure should be change in this scenario.