Helping Your Anxious Child: Strategies for Parents You may want to try strategies for addressing anxiety at home before seeking professional help. To help an anxious child, employ positive strategies that build self-confidence and resilience. Don’t accommodate the anxiety by letting your child off...
Social anxiety is heavily linked to perfectionism. Fear of failure, fear of looking bad in front of friends, or fear of not meeting a goal all contribute heavily to a child’s anxious feelings surrounding a situation. Help your child to focus on the process instead of the goal. Engage them...
in 1930, the psychiatrist Alfred Adler had already cautioned parents that we can love a child as much as we wish, but we must not make that child dependent. He advised parents to begin training kids from the very beginning to stand on their own two feet. He also cautioned that if chi...
Lebowitz encourages parents and caregivers to practice both recognizing their child’s fears and expressing certainty that their child can handle the task. Both are equally important, he said, and not always intuitive. Some are inclined to tell children that something they fear is not scary, which...
Remind your child that there are always options, even if they aren’t what they’d originally envisioned. Anxious teenagers tend to catastrophise — it’s natural, but as parents it’s an opportunity to remind them about the bigger picture: education is a life-...
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Who were we going to see? What would we eat there? Parental Accommodations, or how I accidentally powered up The Cheese Touch in my older son Parental accommodations are simply behaviors you make to help you child cope. Sometimes they can be very helpful and useful. Let’s say that your ...
When a child feels understood, typically, he or she feels less anxious because a parent helps shoulder the worry. If a child’s worries are understood, the child may feel safer letting a parent “in.” Knowing how a child feels allows a parent to help early, so small worries and anxieti...
How to Help Our Kids when Anxiety and OCD Lead to Depression Having anxiety or OCD can be depressing. It can make your child feel hopeless, overwhelmed and discouraged. It can rob them of the things they used to enjoy one fear and one compulsion at a time. ...
We spoke to a parent whose child uses Night Zookeeper to write and ease her anxiety: How did anxiety previously affect your child's learning? “When my daughter is anxious she is on edge and everything is so much more difficult to focus. She forgets things, gets frustrated and can feel ...