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When institutions demand impossible self-regulation from struggling children

My child's school keeps saying they need to learn to cope better but they are seven and having panic attacks and I don't know how to protect them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational systems that pathologize normal stress responses to hostile environments place impossible burdens on developing nervous systems.

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