The post-holiday syndrome in children
After two months of games in the park, excursions, afternoons with friends, swims in the pool ... September arrives with the incorporation to school, early mornings and homework. This sudden change in daily routine can lead to the arrival of postvacational syndrome in the little ones, who had become accustomed to a life without schedules or obligations.
Detect post-holiday syndrome in children
It is normal that in the first days the smallest do not want to go to school, do not want to get out of bed or that even, present tantrums. To avoid this, we must take measures so that this behavior does not manifest itself.
Children will not know how to name the feelings and emotions they are suffering, but parents can detect the post-holiday syndrome in their children by observing their behavior:
- They are apathetic and lack appetite.
- They disobey in the norms that before they fulfilled.
- They have irritability, anxiety, lack of concentration and even sadness.
- Lack of sleep.
- Digestive discomfort.
- Headache.
How to avoid stress in children with the return to school
1. Plan the return gradually. It is important that parents, a few days before starting the course, establish at home a semi-routine, which usually lasts a week. Put the alarm clock to them little by little until they arrive at their time, take them to bed soon, start to dedicate an extra time to the completion of tasks, either as a review of the previous course or taking a look at the new content of the next course.
2. Continue with leisure in September. It is important, taking advantage of the good weather that September still offers, that the activities that were done in summer, like going down to the park or going to the pool, continue practicing until the child's total adaptation arrives.
3. Perform the adaptation period. As to the little ones, the suffering is declared by miss the parents and they have a harder time adapting. It is recommended that in the first days they accompany the children for a time to the school to strengthen the period of adaptation of the return to school.
Noelia de Santiago Monteserín
