Child Mind Institute Provides Sleepover and Summer Camp Anxiety Resources
Spending the night at a friend’s house or going away to summer camp can be a fun and exciting rite of passage for children and young adults - but it can also involve anxiety.
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The Child Mind Institute has released resources regarding sleepover and summer camp anxiety to help parents in easing their children’s minds when they are going to spend the night away from home.
Spending the night at a friend’s house or at a sleepover camp can help children to develop independence, but such occasions can be cut short by a stomachache brought on by anxiety.
The Child Mind Institute’s resources discuss how to help children develop the courage to spend the night away from home. One article discusses how one bad experience away from home can lead to anxiety about doing so again, while another involves how parents’ anxiety about their children being away can be passed on to their child.
Here are The Child Mind Institute’s resources on sleepover and summer camp anxiety: