What's ironic is these psychology professionals are beginning to really zero in on the parenting

style of the parents when the child is anxious.

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So oftentimes we are, we're in a cultural moment where we're discovering that that anxiety for children is on the rise.

And there has been a lot of conversation and a lot of study in the scientific and psychological and faith community about what is going on.

Why are kids struggling so much more with anxiety? And I wanted to talk a little bit about the parents' role in that

struggle if you have a child that is struggling with this. And I was really surprised by a study

that came out recently and was described and that I wanted to get

your take on, Jeff. But this was from Yale psychology professor Eli Leibowitz. And one of the

things that he points out here is instead of treating the children for anxiety, he treats the parents

when the child is anxious. And so let me just read what some of this study said. No longer

treats children with anxiety, they treat the root cause, their parents. We now know that about

95% of parents of anxious children engage in what he calls accommodation. We also know that about 95% of parents of anxious children engage in what he calls accommodation.

We also know that higher degrees of accommodation are associated with more severe anxiety symptoms,

more severe impairment, worse treatment outcomes.

These findings have potential implications even for children who are not yet clinically anxious.

The everyday efforts we make to prevent kids distress, minimizing things that worry or scare them,

assisting with difficult tasks rather than letting them struggle, may not help them manage it in the long term.

So part of what a trend that has really grown a ton in parenting

is this trend of accommodation where we call it things like helicopter parenting or snowplow

parenting or you know, we're basically, it's our job as parents to just clear out all the

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