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Anxiety is getting more and more attention in the news and the press.

I mean, it is something that we are all dealing with and there's a spillover from parents

to kids.

And I'm John Filler along with Danny where to Danny you're a family

counselor I'm imagining you see a lot of people dealing with anxiety and stress

Absolutely there's there's really we're trying to control as much as we can and a lot feels chaotic, a lot of things feel out of control, especially when you look at the news or you just look at around you to your Instagram feeds and

YouTube everywhere you look there's some form of chaos and in a recent poll of

approximately 36,000 teens, 45% said they're almost always stressed.

These are teenagers that are saying that.

Now teenagers are a little bit more emotional in general but

to say that almost half of the teens say they're almost always stressed is to

epidemic levels like you said John. Well we're going to hear more about this from David

Thomas and Sissy Gough. They are longtime family counselors and they have some great

advice about dealing with anxiety as a mom or a dad. Here now is Jim Daly.

What does that handle for a quick self-assessment that I'm dipping toward anxiety?

How do I see it in myself with my child? What would be some of those experiences? If you're

doing this then you may be informing your child in an unhealthy way?

Are you doing it for them?

Or are you stepping in and removing whatever is causing the anxiety in the first place?

If it's track, are you letting or quit the track team immediately without pushing through and having to work through it a little harder doing the homework

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