How can I ease back-to-school anxiety? Parenting SOS with Saskia Joss
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Returning to school after the summer holidays can be an anxious time for many children. So for this month's Parenting SOS, we invited child anxiety specialist and author of Help! My Child's Anxiety is Giving me Anxiety Saskia Joss to the studio to help us make the back-to-school transition as smooth as possible.
Saskia ad Gi talk about some of the reasons why children might feel anxious about returning to school, and what we can do to support them.
Plus, Saskia offers guidance for addressing emotionally-based school avoidance (EBSA) and outlines actionable steps to take if your child feels unable to attend school.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby, Parenting SOS. |
| 0:05.0 | Children should feel safe enough to the things that they love. |
| 0:07.8 | And if they don't, there's obviously been a change of some kind. |
| 0:10.0 | So children that you still love going to school and suddenly they don't, there's a change. |
| 0:13.3 | My feeling about self-esteem and building self-esteem is what children need is for parents or other adults in them to identify a fact about them that seems positive |
| 0:21.4 | and another person to affirm that that's true. |
| 0:24.2 | Right. |
| 0:24.7 | That's the building blocks for self-esteem. |
| 0:26.9 | Anxiety is a coping mechanism that we have to use to keep us alive. |
| 0:31.5 | Our body's primary objective is to stay alive. |
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| 0:45.8 | Let's be honest, parenting is a whirlwind. |
| 0:49.0 | One minute you're enjoying the summer sun and the next, it's school lists, |
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