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Loving Your Anxious Child

Another day, another fear. Spiders, making a mistake on a math test, wearing the wrong socks. If you live with a child who suffers from anxiety, you know this all too well. Some days it feels exhausting. Some days you feel like yelling, “IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL! GET OVER

Learn how to parent well even if you struggle with anxiety.

How to break the cycle of anxiety in your family

You call out to your toddler who is scrambling up the jungle gym, “Be careful, honey! Watch out!” He decides it is too scary to climb and decides to go to the sandbox instead. You check your teen’s grades online and realize there is missing work, “Don’t you have math

Helping Kids Manage Anxiety with Art

I’m so excited to have Amy Maricle, a licensed mental health counselor and art therapist, share a simple technique that you can use to help your children manage big feelings such as, anxiety, irritability, fear or frustration. Get out the paint smocks! There are lots of ways that

Anxiety: Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

Anxiety is a master at making us run away from our fears. It’s like the wrong side of a magnet, the closer we get, the more we try to push away. It’s no surprise, really. No one wants to feel uncomfortable. We don’t want to sweat or

Let Your Children Feel Their Feelings

There is nothing better than hearing the sound of children laughing. Seeing your son confidently climb the ladder to the tallest slide. Getting a giant bear hug from your daughter. Ahh…the joys of parenting. Unfortunately, with the joy, there are also the hard times. Arguments, yelling, conflict and competition. Failure,

How to Help Your Child with Summer Camp Anxiety

You can’t wait. Your child is signed up for a week-long overnight camp. This is the same camp you went to every year when you were a child. And now it’s your daughter’s turn. You loved everything about camp – crafts, canoeing, eating in the cafeteria, getting

The Power of a Story: Helping Your Child Overcome Fears

Children who struggle with worry or anxiety often have a negative “worry script” playing in their head. Help your children overcome fears by creating a new positive script! Jordan shuffled slowly to the front of the classroom. His shoulders were hunched, his stomach was in knots and his

Beyond “Take a Deep Breath”: Helping Your Anxious Child Practice Calming Strategies at Home

Your son is worried again. He doesn’t want to go to school tomorrow. He says he thinks he’s getting sick. You’ve been here before. You feel helpless and overwhelmed, not sure how to help your anxious child. You encourage him to “take a deep breath,” but he refuses, saying “it

How to Teach Your Child to Take a Deep Breath

If you have a child who struggles with anxiety, anger or impatience, you are probably very familiar with the phrases: “calm down” and “take a deep breath.” Even though you’re not convinced that those phrases really work, you continue to say them because you don’t know what else to say.

Timeouts not working for your child? Not sure what else to try? Here are 7 alternatives to time out that encourage positive parenting and respectful discipline for kids of all ages.

Anxious Child? Teach them to be Bossy with Worries

Your daughter is the one who tells the younger siblings how to play “correctly” with their Barbies. Your son can stand firmly against your decision, presenting the numerous reasons that you are wrong and he is right. Yet, when it comes to worries, these kids crumble.

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Loving Your Anxious Child

How to break the cycle of anxiety in your family

Helping Kids Manage Anxiety with Art

Anxiety: Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

Let Your Children Feel Their Feelings

How to Help Your Child with Summer Camp Anxiety

The Power of a Story: Helping Your Child Overcome Fears

Beyond “Take a Deep Breath”: Helping Your Anxious Child Practice Calming Strategies at Home

How to Teach Your Child to Take a Deep Breath

Anxious Child? Teach them to be Bossy with Worries