Abstract

This paper is about children and stress. Stress among children is a serious problem and to be aware of that as a preschool teacher is very important. I’ve focused on the youngest children

in preschool. I’ve searched for information in litterateur and articles. To fins literature is not a problem because it is a lot written about this subject. I did two interviews with three preschool teachers. All my sources agree that stress among children is a problem that we must try to work against.

There are two kinds of stress, one is positive and the other one is negative. Everyone needs positive stress in their lives, but we don’t need negative stress. Negative stress is when you have so much pressure on you that can’t match your capacity and when that happens you experience negative stress.

I have found out in my research that stress exists among children in preschool. Everyone express stress differently because we all have different stress patience, which makes it hard to tell when children experience stress. There are simple things that preschool teachers can do to reduce stress. It is important that the teachers aren’t stressed because that makes the children stressed too. The easiest thing preschool teachers can do is to take it calm with the children so they don’t have to feel stressed.

The aim with this paper is to develop knowledge about children and stress in kindergarten, how they express stress and what preschool teachers can do to work against it.

Keywords: Children, stress, preschool, weekday