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.