PSP 039: How to Help Anxious Kids with Big Life Changes

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

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🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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There were three words that would stop me dead in my tracks as a kid – We. Are. Moving. I didn’t handle change well and unfortunately my parents didn’t handle stability well. It was a bad combination for an anxious kid like me. I also felt silently overwhelmed when our family dog died, when I changed schools, when my parents got divorced and all the life that happened in between. So, how should parents help anxious kids deal with such big life changes? I can tell you what I tell parents in my therapy practice and privately what I wish my own parents would have done as well. ***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***

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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, hey there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:15.9	Podcast. I hope you're having a great week and I'm glad you can join me. Today I'm
0:21.1	going to be talking about how do you help your anxious kids when they're going through life's hiccups.
0:27.0	Sometimes we hit big bumps, sometimes we hit small bumps, but if you're an anxious kid, a bump is a bump. And so it's hard to navigate
0:37.0	through them. There are things that we can do as parents to make it a little bit easier because life is not predictable and the only
0:46.2	consistency in life is change which I absolutely hate that because I like
0:51.8	stability as an anxious person. I like predictability, like all my
0:56.0	little anxious kids, and when life throws a curveball, it throws everybody out of whack.
1:02.2	So what do you do with that? So it could be a move, it could be
1:05.8	changing schools, it could be something big like a divorce or a death. All of those life
1:12.1	changes alter their daily routine and their perceptions of how life is
1:17.9	supposed to be.
1:19.4	And so kids tend to have a really hard time with that, and anxious kids have a really hard time with that and anxious kids have a really hard time with it
1:25.1	because it can unravel everything that felt stable at one point. So I totally get
1:31.6	this obviously because I was an anxious kid growing up as I always talk about.
1:37.0	And I really thrived on stability and routine and my parents really thrived on instability and chaos.
1:45.0	And I wish that was really funny because it's not. So we moved all the time.
1:51.0	They were just very, very unstable, both my mom and dad.
1:56.2	And so the moves happened suddenly and frequently.
2:00.8	And so I know as an anxious child or a recovering anxious child, what I needed and what I didn't get.
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