Stress Affecting Children

Brain development for children under 11 is constantly changing because of how kids are spending their time. Over the past 3 years tests have been done and they have found what actually is hurting and helping the growth of the brain. There are many different theories and studies that have been done that show that stress is the number one cause and is the reason why the brain is changing, therefore most of the results show that it is not helping children it is hurting them. Stress is constantly hurting kids because it’s not giving their brain the time to grow to the fullest. “Stress can cause higher risks of developing depression or anxiety as adults.” (Conger) The worse the stress problem is the more anxiety and emotional issues they will have later in life. Studies have shown that “severe

Studies show that it’s mostly affecting the emotional aspect because the child won’t have access to emotions because the brain never developed fully which cause PTSD. (Conger) PTSD impairs the child’s ability to reacher the social, emotional and academic milestones. Dr. Jack Shonkoff has come up with approaches and has found that “he could focus on social and emotional development.” The social aspect on the brain development is that when the brain does not grow fully it will cause issues later in their life and that is the same way for the other aspect too. It is important to let the brain and it’s structure grow to the fullest otherwise