Moral OCD: Mistakes Parents Often Make (and How to Avoid Them)

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Parenting, Ocd Therapy, Ocd In Children, Ocd, Anxiety, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Moral OCD can be tricky for parents to recognize because it often looks like strong values, deep guilt, or honest confessions.

In this episode, I break down the most common pitfalls parents fall into when trying to support their child with Moral OCD like:

Mistaking OCD-driven fears for good morals
Treating compulsive “confessions” as real
Worrying that if you don’t respond, your child will bottle everything up.
Confusion around if it is OCD or your child’s religious or personal beliefs and preferences.

Most importantly, I’ll share practical ways to shift your responses: how to separate OCD from true values, recognize when you’re debating with OCD instead of your child, respond in a consistent way to “confessions,” and support healthy communication without fueling compulsions.

You’ll walk away with concrete strategies to reduce accommodation while still staying connected and compassionate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos
0:08.7	of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.
0:12.1	This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified
0:17.2	professional.
0:18.7	Here's your host, Child Therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there,
0:23.1	and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival podcast. Today, we're going to dive
0:28.5	into Moral OCD. I have quite a few episodes on Moral OCD, but I wanted to do another one,
0:34.6	one, because it's such a common problem that's not covered enough.
0:38.3	If you're a parent raising a child with moral OCD, you're nodding right now because this is true.
0:44.6	And two, from the two decades, I was an anxiety and OCD child therapist and my ongoing work in the AT parenting community helping like thousands of parents,
0:55.2	I see common mistakes over and over again, in particular with moral OCD.
1:01.7	So I thought, what a great topic to cover to make sure that you avoid these common mistakes.
1:08.6	But before I get started, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode.
1:12.5	No CD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in the U.S.
1:17.2	and outside the U.S. You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if no CD
1:23.7	is a right fit for you and your child. Just go to treat myocd.com. That is treat myoced.com.
1:30.4	I will leave a link in the show notes as well. So let's dive into today's topic. So I just want to
1:37.4	briefly, for those of you that are new to my podcast and new to OCD in general, what is OCD?
1:45.8	I'm just going to talk about this, but I do have other episodes on on what is OCD. We dive more deeply on just like the fundamentals of it.
1:54.1	And I will leave a link to all of my other moral OCD podcasts. And I have some YouTube videos too
2:00.4	on that. But in general,
2:04.4	moral OCD is having an intrusive thought or feeling that you are going to do something bad,
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