Starting school is a particularly stressful time for kids who have spent the last couple of months enjoying their freedom. For the right-brained child, school represents a particular harsh dose of reality, which can often bring about severe behavioral changes in your child. Many times, the only draw that school has, for the kinds of children I work with, is that they get to once again reunite with their friends. Beyond that, there is usually only suffering implied by the beginning of school. Right-brained children almost always have issues sleeping, and their fears can many times be more intense, than other children’s. All summer long they have been free to sleep later, go to bed later, and wake up free of the anxiety so often prevalent in their school day. The left brained nature of our typical school is very hard for these visual students to easily accommodate to. Many times these children wake up too early, in anticipation of school, and often suffer from headaches, stomachaches, and other anxiety related issues. It is common for the students I work with to start feeling anxiety around the starting of school, a couple of weeks, before they actually begin attending school. Parents often report that their child is more irritable, short tempered and generally hard to be around when school starts. With a left brained child, school is not a major interruption to their lives, indeed they may really look forward to the beginning of school, and actually enjoy the drill, rote, and the orderly sequential nature of the typical American classroom. In contrast, the visual child knows full well what they are getting into in school; which usually consists of insufferable amounts of homework, boring lectures, and having to sit still in one place for a prolonged period of time. Everything about the typical American classroom is difficult for the visual child, and when they reminisce about their earlier school experiences, they many times have a general negative associative feeling about school.