Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is an anxiety disorder in which an individual experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home and/or from people to whom the individual has a strong emotional attachment (e.g., a parent, caregiver, significant other, or siblings). Separation anxiety is a natural part of the developmental process. It is most common in infants and little children, typically between the ages of six to seven months to three years, although it may pathologically manifest itself in older children, adolescents and adults. Normal separation anxiety indicates healthy advancements in a child’s cognitive maturation and should not be considered a developing behavioural problem.

This audio will help your child to feel confident and calm when the parent or the caregiver leave, or when they are at the school gates, or someone else’s house. The child will develop a “certain” feeling that you or the caregiver will come back to pick up him or her and that nothing is going to happen to the adult. Knowing that” the little scary feeling in the tummy” will pass and later on, you or the caregiver, will be back to pick up them from school.