Parents may think the best thing to do with a nervous child is to tell him or her not to worry.
She was a nervous child, and I thought that being married and having children would steady her.
Nothing in truth to frighten the most nervous child!
Before the age of six, he was a sickly and nervous child, who is reported to have had regular tantrums.
He was born in a very difficult time, and they just don't know how to deal with a nervous child in these modern schools.
She is a high-strung, nervous child with a delicate stomach.
She spoke as she might have done to a nervous child.
I don't know what the result will be to that nervous delicate child.
"He was always a nervous child," she said, beaming at me.
Several of the more nervous and imaginative children went quite pale.