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Back to school blues: how to help your child with shyness

  • Written by Ron Rapee, Director of the Centre for Emotional Health and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, Macquarie University
Back to school blues: how to help your child with shynessExcessively protecting your child and taking over, doesn’t allow them to learn through experience. Shutterstock

This series draws on the latest research on back to school transitions. In it, the experts explain how best to prepare children for school, and counter difficulties such as stress or bad behaviour.


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