Feeling Fear and Learning Disabilities

Learning Disabilities Articles for Help with Kids by Susan Kramer

Contents

1. What Is Dysgraphia?
2. Dyslexia Information and Help
3. Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Symptoms
4. Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Explained
5. Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Managing Anger
6. What Is Childhood Disintegrative Disorder - CDD?
7. Hyperlexia Information
8. Asperger's Disorder Information
9. TSC and Learning Disabilities
10. Living Harmoniously with Learning Disabilities
11. Cooperation and Learning Disabilities
12. Overcoming Stress
13. Dividing Time Between Your Kids
14. Helping Kids with Challenges Make Friends
15. Learning Difficulties or Disabilities?
16. Making Transitions and Learning Disabilities
17. Helping Kids Find New Solutions
18. Back to School Dress When Challenged
19. Showing Courage and Learning Disabilities
20. Teach Kids to Stay Close to Home
21. Feeling Fear and Learning Disabilities
22. Kids Learn Trustworthiness
23. Multitasking Ideas

24. Laziness or Learning Disabilities?
25. Helping Kids Reach Their Goals
26. Family Roundtable Discussions with Kids
27. Materialism Issues
28. Illness or Accident Leading to a Challenge
29. Vocational or Academics for Challenged Teens?
30. Expectations and Relating
31. Nurturing Kids of All Abilities
32. Our Roles in the Eyes of Society
33. Developing Self-Esteem
34. Changing Goals and Learning Disabilities
35. Shopping Trips Can Be Educational
36. Achievement with Learning Disabilities
37. Resolving Conflicts and Learning Disabilities
38. Teaching Kids Order and Organization
39. Family Life with Learning Disabilities
40. Backyard Motor Skills Games
41. Truancy and Learning Disabilities
42. Kids Learn About Playing Fairly
43. Looking for Equitable Resolves
44. Aerobic Activities for Stress Relief in School
45. Acceptance, Abundance and Learning Disabilities
46. Kids Learn About Sharing

21. Feeling Fear and Learning Disabilities

Feeling relaxed and safe allows us to confront any issue or person who disagrees with, or threatens our values. Everyone and everything influences us, but we have free will to choose our reactions. We fear an encounter when we feel we will have to give up our position or attitudes, or be coerced into doing what feels uncomfortable to us.

Children with learning disabilities may feel fear when they don't seem to be able to do tasks the same way as their classmates. It is up to the adults in their lives to find a way they can succeed so they don't feel the fear of not being as competent as others.

When a potential conflict threatens, we need to remember what our body felt like during times we felt happy, and then relax into that harmonious state once again, feeling whole, complete, and safe in our body and in control of our mind. No one can influence us without our permission.

We are entitled to our own ideas and values. We do not have to take on uncomfortable or unacceptable ideas. We must use courage to preserve our ideas and integrity. Teaching kids a relaxation technique helps alleviate their fear so they, too, feel safe again.

Bravely, while feeling safe and secure in our body, is the time to confront those issues holding us back from freely expressing ourselves in the world.

We each can and must learn to be courageous in order to expand and experience our humanness within humanity, fully.

Courageousness is reborn when we accept our birthright to be the full person we can be and achieve. Parents, look for signs of stress and fear in your kids and give them tools to recover their peace. For example, teach them relaxation techniques and aerobic activities to get their mind off troubling thoughts, and bolster their self-esteem with positive statements.

Article by Susan Kramer

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