Have you ever thought that your little one might show some signs of anxiety?

You know, it can start even earlier than you would think.

And the cool thing about noticing it early is that we now know that the earlier that anxiety

is addressed, the less likely it is to lead to more serious mental health issues that aren't

always quite as easy to treat successfully.

So today I've asked Jessica Bradshaw

guidance counselor with over 22 years experience working with children. She's an award-winning

elementary guidance counselor here in the Dallas area. She's going to talk to us about ways to,

one, recognize the signs and symptoms in your child,

and two, how we can help them as their parents, as their caregivers, what we can do to help

it.

Welcome back to feeding toddlers made easy. I'm Casey Barnes, registered dietitian nutritionist, mom of two, and a lot of our episodes go beyond just the toddler years. Today is one of them. And this is going to be helpful even if you have a school-aged kiddo. So definitely listen in. If you have any worries about anxiety,

you know, this is informational only. If you have questions about your own child's mental health,

please reach out to a qualified professional. But I'm so excited for you to hear some of these

strategies that Jessica has to share with us because it can be really hard to

know how to help your little one. And sometimes we can unknowingly do stuff that makes it worse.

And I know you don't want to do that. I've totally been there myself. So let's go ahead and

chat with Jessica. Jessica, hi, welcome.

Hi, thanks for having me.

I'm so excited to talk to you.

This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart because anxiety is something that we

have dealt with in our family, both me personally, and I'm super open talking about that

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