When I first started going to pre- primary school, I saw my friends, including me, also crying so much before entering the classroom, hugging their parents tightly with a feeling of fear and did not want to come inside the classroom. At that time, I wondered why this happened, we cried, and behaved like this! But now, when I see the same situation of children in my workplace at school, as a psychologist, I understand that this is nothing but a distress of children as they are separated from their caregivers, which we term as Separation Anxiety.  When human infants and infants of other species are separated from their parents or caregivers, they show distress and fear, which is known as separation anxiety. Around 4-5 per cent of children suffer from this condition. They often express this anxiety through different emotions, like either they cry or showing anger. It is…