How to Tell When Your Child’s OCD Is Involving You
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
OCD rarely stays contained inside your child’s mind. It often pulls parents directly into the cycle through reassurance questions, confessing, repeated checking, cleaning rituals, avoidance rules, or even scripting exactly what you are allowed to say.
If you feel like you are constantly answering the same questions, following invisible rules, or walking on eggshells, OCD may be involving you more than you realize.
In this episode, we break down how to identify family accommodation, how to decide what to stop doing first, and how to respond in a way that supports your child while shrinking OCD. You will learn simple, practical steps to move from being part of OCD’s system to becoming part of your child’s recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:11.9 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.4 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.2 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Surveillance Podcast. Today, I want to talk to you |
| 0:28.4 | about something that is so important and is so key to our child, teen, or young adult making |
| 0:33.7 | long-term progress. And that is our understanding of how OCD involves you. |
| 0:41.2 | So we're going to talk about the very crafty, sneaky ways that OCD gets you to be involved. |
| 0:48.8 | And then after the break, we're going to talk about what do you do with that? |
| 0:52.0 | But before we jump in, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this |
| 0:54.8 | episode. NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in the |
| 1:00.5 | U.S. and outside the U.S. You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if no-cd is |
| 1:06.9 | the right fit for you and your child. Just go to treat myoced.com. That's treat myoced.com. I'll leave a link |
| 1:13.8 | in the show notes as well. I also want to mention that if you've ever wanted to join my AT parenting |
| 1:18.7 | community, that is my private member community, where we do weekly Zoom classes, we do monthly support |
| 1:25.1 | group calls, not just for you, but also for kids and for teens, where |
| 1:29.2 | you get access to over $500 worth of my courses. |
| 1:32.7 | And you get access to me. |
| 1:34.7 | You can directly message me in the app. |
| 1:36.7 | You can directly message other members so that you can feel supported and feel like you |
| 1:40.9 | have a community. |
| 1:42.1 | It is just for the wait list, but you can join the waitlist, |
| 1:44.9 | and then you'll quickly get an email, hopefully right back, giving you that private link to join us. |
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