DAK study: Every fifth student suffers stress at school sleep disorders, nervousness, headache facing these stress symptoms already the little ones. Every fifth child frequently suffers from stress at school, the parents magazine warns school + family”and refers it to a recent study among parents, in order given by the insurance company DAK. Therefore, 20 per cent of mothers and fathers with their children often notice signs of stress at school. Another 22 percent occasionally notice them and 23% rarely. Only one-third of the parents see no signs of stress at school. “Fear of bad grades, tests, pressure, but also problems with classmates and teachers to create children in school, as Martina Kaiser, editor-in-Chief of school + family”. Affected girls and boys respond according to study mostly unfocused, jittery and twist.

You complain of headache or stomach ache. Some people withdraw, others behave irritable or aggressive. Not a few have no more desire to the School to go. Martina Kaiser, mother of two school-aged children, recommends: kids need time to play and romp. “Because if the relationship between pressure and recovery is no longer true, at some point, every child is sick and also every adult.” More news and information on current school issues find parents in the new issue of school + family”. “” Main topics of the book are crossing 2009: the right school “as well as training for the head: 7 strategies”. The magazine for parents of elementary school students from the Nuremberg Sailer Verlag (Bayard Media Group) is available immediately for 3.60 euros at newsstands. Contact Bayard: Nicole Brunner, corporate communications email: Tel: 0821/7004-5557