Dealing with pressure, exam anxiety and fear of school

Dealing with perfectionism

Perfectionist children want to do everything particularly well. You have high expectations of yourself and want to master new tasks right away, for example. They are angry with themselves, if they do not come to a correct result right away, take individual mistakes or failures to heart and hardly allow themselves to rest. Most of these children react very sensitively and strongly emotionally (crying, outbursts of anger) to criticism, at the same time it is difficult for them to look forward to positive feedback because they perceive much that is valuable as a disguised attack and “ignore” praise. They are often worried that their performance is not good enough and their value as a person depends on their grades.