Research carried out by the Cambridge-based Primary Review says many school children are suffering from ‘deep anxiety’ and are just as overwhelmed as their parents by the messages, instructions and choice thrown at them each day.

A child’s fragile and still-developing brain is less suited to handling stress and negative emotions such as fear, anger, sadness or sorrow, particularly over longer periods of time.

And with 10 per cent of children suffering from some form of mental health problem, the fact that just under 170,000 UK children were seen by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in 2006 gives some indication of the scale of the problem.

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