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Stress and anxiety in children and teenagers are just as prevalent as in adults. Stressed out and negligent parents, high expectations in academic or other performances, abused or deprived childhood, growing up tensions and demand for familial responsibility are the main causes of childhood and teen Stress. Parents, who are not emotionally available for their children or lack positive coping mechanisms themselves, often spurin their offspring. Stressed children show signs of emotional disabilities, aggressive behavior, shyness, social phobia and often lack interest in otherwise enjoyable activities. Research tells us that children, who are forced to live on prematurely adult levels, sometimes become oppositional to following the parents` rules (or those of society). Such children tend to respond to Stressors with aggression and indignation. Many teenagers tend to become nonconformists and fall prey to teenage depression in response to a variety of growing up anxieties. However, Stress induced fears and anxieties in children adversely affect children's performances at various levels. Stress can cause headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, eating disorder, allergies, insomnia, backaches, frequent cold and fatigue to diseases such as hypertension, asthma, diabetes, heart ailments and even cancer. Methods of coping with Stress are aplenty.