PSP 036: Helping Anxious Kids When Shootings & Other Tragedies Happen

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

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

Anxiety, Ocd Therapy, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Ocd, Health & Fitness, Ocd In Children, Parenting, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

I wake up and reach for my phone. Breaking news headlines scream for my attention. Not again, I think. How many tragedies do we need to witness? How many mass shootings and bombings do my children need to live through? It doesn’t help that I have three anxious kids. Anxiety feeds off these headlines. Thrives off these dark moments of time. It has the power to ruin any progress a child has made crushing their anxiety. So how do we handle the situation? Do we tell our anxious kids what has happened? How do we minimize the impact it has on their already fragile view of life’s dangers? We can’t ignore these life events, but we can frame it in a way that minimizes the long-term impact. Here’s how… ***This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.Visit my website at www.ATparentingSurvival.comInterested in my AT Parenting Community Membership? Click below to join us!http://www.atparentingcommunity.com Sign up for my weekly email newsletter:https://pages.convertkit.com/740ba8cd83/92109b7172Take one of my online classes:To view the entire online school library, go to:http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.comClasses include:How to Crush Social Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-social-anxietyParenting Kids with OCD http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/child-ocdCrush Moral OCD in Kidshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/moral-ocdTeaching Kids to Crush Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-anxiety Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviorshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/difficult-behaviorsHelping Kids Who are Scared to Sleephttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/scared-to-sleepHandling Sensory-Based Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/sensory-anxietyLibrary of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays)http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/libraryUltimate list of helpful anxiety products:https://www.anxioustoddlers.com/reduce-child-anxiety/ To join my private Facebook group visit:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATparentinganxiouskids/For a list of my books visit:https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniels/e/B011K5IIWAJoin the fun on my YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/anxioustoddlers78 Other social places I hang out:http://www.facebook.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.pinterest.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.twitter.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.instagram.com/anxioustoddlers***

See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.
0:07.0	Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:11.0	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:16.0	Podcast. Well today I was all prepared to talk to you about how to figure out what your child's anxiety themes are, how to figure out why they're
0:26.2	anxious, because a lot of times it's a bit of a mystery.
0:30.3	And I had everything totally prepared and done, and then I woke up this morning and something horrific had happened.
0:37.0	And for those of you that live in the States, so probably even those that don't, there was a mass shooting in Las Vegas. So if you have little ones in the car,
0:45.5	you might not want to listen to this podcast with them because I'm going to be
0:49.1	talking about how to talk to our kids about these horrible things that happen.
0:55.0	So when big scary things happen in our world, what do we do with that?
1:00.0	So I kind of hummed and hot and I was like,
1:02.0	should I talk about this or should I just go with the thing that's already prepared?
1:06.0	I have already done all the work for.
1:08.4	And I went on my private Facebook group,
1:11.5	which if you don't belong, I will leave a link below because you
1:14.4	should belong. It's a great group. And I started to see this thread where all the parents were like, yikes,
1:20.0	what do we tell our anxious kids? How are you guys handling the shooting?
1:25.0	And then I thought, okay, fine, I need to do it today.
1:28.1	So I decided to postpone the theme
1:31.6	that I'm going to talk about and talk about this instead because I feel like this is really relevant and it's really important that I talk about things that can help you in the here and now.
1:42.0	So when I woke up and I saw this, you know, I was really
1:46.7	taken back. And then I have three kids, if you listen to me at all, you know this. And so all my kids are changing ages. So now my daughter is 14.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.