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🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderbilt League and today I'm here |
0:17.0 | with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Civier. We're offering suggestions to help children find relief from anxiety. |
0:26.4 | We're going to dig into the best way that parents and caregivers can respond to an anxious child. |
0:32.1 | We'll explore how parents can help kids stay calm and |
0:34.8 | in stressful situations and how to help children to face their fears. |
0:41.2 | Welcome back in Nanga. |
0:42.6 | Hey Shen. |
0:43.6 | So glad we're having this conversation today. |
0:46.6 | I think we begin by sharing that it's important to let the young ones know, to let our children know, that worry is natural. |
0:56.4 | It's a part of life. |
0:57.8 | Yeah, I used to suffer very strongly with anxiety as a child. |
1:05.0 | And so as we're having this discussion, I can see 10-year-old me and remember what that felt like. |
1:11.0 | And I think that is a really important thing to |
1:13.7 | reassure children that there's nothing wrong with them and that we can all feel |
1:17.6 | worried sometimes and not to make worry feel like a big monster that's lurking in the corner that's going to wreck everything but a natural |
1:26.3 | experience of life that we all worry sometimes. It's so important to allow time and space to hear them, even if their concerns might sound |
1:37.2 | lightweight to an adult. It isn't to them, it's real to them. And it's so important to hear them with patience and kindness and let them know that they have |
1:46.5 | support when they need it. I think for me what I really needed to know was that I wasn't a problem and I didn't have something terrible wrong with me that needed fixing which was how I would often bill and I think it's just so easy for a moment's impatience from a parent to do so much harm to a child that's already suffering with anxiety. |
2:12.0 | So just to remember to be patient, to be kind and take it from there. |
2:20.4 | And to remember that even though we want to fix everything and make life as easy and |
2:26.6 | sweet as we can for our kids, we can't. |
2:29.7 | We can't fix everything, but we can be there. We can let them know that we are there to support them. |
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