I explain why I’d need more information to know where to start with this question to (hopefully) give the poster (and listeners) some ideas of what to do NEXT when considering how to address their child’s anxiety.
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Now, you know, that our focus on Child Anxiety is not avoiding and going towards the things that make our child anxious in order for them to confront and cope with their anxiety. So I’m going to read the rest of the question here so we can dig into this specific example. My son year
This question from a listener gives us the opportunity to talk about some of the details we need to know to appropriate address our individual child’s anxiety, especially around things like school refusal.
This week’s question is, is it my anxiety or my child’s? That’s a great question. And I’m going to insert that meme here, where the kid says, why not both? The truth is it can be difficult to tease out where the anxiety started. Do we have an anxious parent? Do we have an anxious
We talk about what parents sometimes misunderstand about coping and what the research has to say about relaxation and anxiety.
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The person submitting the question this week is trying to figure out if her child’s anxiety around school is due to an event — did something specific happen? Or is an expression of her child’s more general anxiety. They didn’t share a lot of details so I answered more about how to tell if this is a pattern of anxiety.
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I usually get a version of this question asking about diet, supplements, or herbal remedies. I explain why I’m not the right person to answer THAT and why I am the right person to talk about other forms of natural child anxiety treatment.
Hey everybody. This week’s question for the Child Anxiety FAQ is, “are there techniques for teaching emotional regulation to anxious children?” And of course there are techniques teaching emotional regulation for all kinds of kids, including anxious kids. It’s going to be a little bit different for anxious children, because we tend to focus on
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In this week’s episode I gave a shout out to some of my favorite people, namely, librarians, Mr. Rogers and child life specialists!
Based on a question I got on TikTok, I address how to support an anxious child in learning to cope when they have no interest in learning to cope. We pay particular attention to the type of child who is private about their struggles.
