PSP 047: What to Do When Anxiety Causes Our Kids to Have Negative Thoughts

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

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

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

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🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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“I had the worst day ever!” My child screams. Thirty minutes ago everything was going well. He had a good day at school and he was excited to go play. While doing homework he shouts “I’m the dumbest kid ever!” Who is this kid and where did my child go? This is a kid who gets straight As. So what is going on? Anxiety. Anxiety doesn’t always look like anxiety. Sometimes it looks like aggression. Sometimes it looks like opposition. And sometimes…it makes a child very negative. So how do you help a child who oozes negative thoughts? You can try with some of these approaches… ***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, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:17.3	podcast. Today I want to talk to you about something that I think as parents we all deal with and that is
0:25.8	negative thoughts. We have our own negative thoughts but that's not what this is
0:30.3	about and our children especially anxious kids and kids with other mental health
0:35.8	problems tend to have a lot of negative thoughts.
0:40.2	Now I'm not talking about bad thoughts, so I am differentiating.
0:44.6	If your child is having a lot of bad thoughts,
0:47.5	you might want to check out some of my other podcast episodes
0:50.7	on moral OCD and intrusive thoughts.
0:55.0	That is episode 32 and episode 42 that cover those topics.
1:01.0	But today I want to talk more about just those negative thoughts, having a really
1:06.5	negative child, and how you handle that.
1:10.5	Because I frankly find it very draining, because I find it very draining because I find that I'm a very relatively
1:17.6	optimistic person and I try to see the bright side of everything and I try to get myself out of funks and even though I definitely find myself there
1:30.7	as every parent does overall I tend to be a pretty optimistic person in general.
1:38.5	And I have three kids and two of my three kids are pretty optimistic.
1:44.1	One is very optimistic or I can easily get her out of her funk.
1:49.2	The other one's pretty optimistic too.
1:51.6	But my son is definitely not optimistic currently. Maybe that will
1:57.4	change in his life and I really hope it will and I'm doing everything I
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