One message that I would want any parent of an anxious child to know is that in all of mental health,

in all of psychiatry and psychology, there is no problem more treatable than anxiety.

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The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

I'm an assail.

One in 11. American children and adolescents has an anxiety disorder, a number that's been increasing over the last 20 years.

We heard about this in our recent Colin series about mental health called Hold On.

I have two young kids, and I also hear

about this in conversations with other parents in disrupted family routines, battles over going

to school or access to social media. Many of us are questioning how to support our kids through

their fears while also pushing them

when they need it. I was riffing on some version of that with some neighbors on my deck in

Berkeley a few months back. And one of them, Mike Maraski, described growing up in the 70s

in Montana. He was not hovered over as a kid, which suited his personality.

He's always had a healthy skepticism of authority.

He moved to the Bay Area initially with his punk band.

And before that, there was skateboarding.

I remember literally the first time I stepped on a skateboard.

I went down a hill and fell and scraped both my knees and my elbows.

I mean, it was like a real scraped both my knees and my elbows. And, you know, I mean,

it was like a real wipeout, like literally the first time. And then, you know, just jumped up and

was like, fuck yeah, I got to do that again, you know. Where were your parents?

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