12yo daughter crying a lot

[francis15]

Our 12 year old girl(only child) has the last few weeks started crying before going to school,in school,prior to any out of school activity and sometimes at home for no apparent reason.The reasons vary from tummy ache,feeling hot and more than often not knowing why herself.
She has ALWAYS been a shy,fragile girl and went through a similar thing a couple of years ago but that was down to friendships and was sorted.Past couple of years she's been great(few hiccups) but overall "normal".Shes a girl who can't keep anything to herself and if she has anything on her mind she will tell us.
One thing which has crossed our mind is hormonal changes.Shes not got any physical signs according to my wife except a growth on top.Like I said she's a shy,panicky and sometimes jumpy child.
Could this be signs of puberty?

If she hasn't opened up, I would make an appointment with her class tutor group teacher and check to see if DD has been behaving as usual in school.

My DD went through similar...at the same age and she's almost 14 now and it has blown over.

It was hormones with her...it's very tricky and I do feel for you.

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Her hormones will probably be a factor, don't underestimate the havoc they can cause but do take it seriously won't you? My girl is going through he'll at the moment with anxiety, school is being amazing to us.

You'll need endless patience, let's of love and encouragement for her and I agree talk to the Pastoral Lead at school. Basically keep listening and watching. Maybe plan some things to look forward to around your budget.

Gah, typos sorry!

Thanks for the advice.Her new secondary school are doing a few things with her to try and help her confidence.They are convinced it's just down to being shy which I can see but she's ALWAYS been that way.Its only been these last 3 weeks or so when this started so we can't really see a pattern as such.