Dr. Lebowitz has a great analogy about how to respond if your child is trying to argue about a planned change: Here’s a little trick you can use to help you stay out of an argument with your child. (This works
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In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I discuss how anticipatory anxiety can show up as well as approaches you can use to reduce its impact on your child’s mental health.Click below to listen to the episode: Do you want in-depth support to help your child build skills to crush...
assessment of a child’s symptoms, and referral to a mental health provider. While this may not immediately address the root cause of the problem, it can help stabilize the situation while a plan is put in place. When the emergency
In my experience as a researcher and educator, with a Ph.D. in Psychology, I have found that young children may express fears of separation and attachment as anxiety mounts. Older children may become more aggressive and express anger as a way to control their feelings of fear and helplessness...
being connected to an external monetary reward. *Also, any paying job should be a supplement to allowance, a child shouldn’t be punished for getting a job by having their allowance taken away. Natural and Logical Consequences with Allowance Having to create one’s own budget, also allows ...
“Our instinct may be to try to make things better or solve their friendship challenges for them, but I encourage parents to pause, take a breath, and remember that this is an opportunity to help their child build the skills to cope with a loss in a healthy way,” says Felder. ...
My personal favorite way to talk about anxiety with kids is to use their incredibleimaginationto their advantage. Ask: what’s your anxiety’s name? What’s he/she telling you? What does he/she/it look like? You can help your child develop a picture of their anxiety that effecti...
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 tim
How to Help Your Kids Travel with Anxiety It can be touch and go traveling with any child, but when you add anxiety to the mix it can get tricky! As we travel around this summer we are dealing with not only my own anxiety, but all of my children’s anxie