PSP 127: How to Help a Child with Lockdown Drills

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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🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The kids are huddled in the corner of the room. It is dark. It is quiet. They are told not to talk. They are told to hide behind objects and lock the classroom door. Some kids are shaking. Some kids have wide eyes. This is not an emergency situation. These are lockdown drills. This can be very unnerving for any child, but for anxious children this has the potential to cause ongoing fear and panic. So what should parents do? Many of us avoid the topic unless our kids bring it up. But with at least 32 states requiring monthly lockdown drills, many of our kids are exposed to these drills over 10 times a school year. These are important drills (sadly), but how do we minimize the ongoing trauma these drills can evoke? I brought in just the person to answer these questions. In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast episode, I talk to Nancy Kislin, a psychotherapist and author of Lock Down: Talking to Your Kids About School Violence. She brought so much insight to this topic and offered some solid, concrete steps anyone can take to help their children. To learn more about Nancy's work go to Lockdownbook.com *** 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.
0:12.0	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:17.6	Podcast. Today I'm going to talk about a topic that can make us all pretty anxious and it's a topic that we probably
0:26.0	avoid maybe talking about with our kids because one it might trigger our own
0:31.6	anxiety and two we may worry that it would trigger our children's
0:36.8	anxiety, especially when we're dealing with kids who already have anxiety or OCD issues.
0:41.8	We may not want to rock the boat, and so we don't talk about this.
0:45.2	So it is an important conversation and I always thought that way, but I didn't realize to
0:51.1	what level until I talked to my guest today Nancy Kislin and
0:56.8	she really opened up my eyes to the importance of talking about lockdown drills and it's such a specific topic and yet
1:06.9	it impacts all of our kids on a very awesome
1:15.0	awesome concrete approaches of what we may not even be aware of and she really opened up my eyes to that
1:16.0	and gave some very awesome concrete approaches of what we can do about it
1:21.5	because I think it's one thing to talk about a really scary topic
1:24.9	and then to just like freak ourselves out
1:27.1	and not have any tools to take,
1:29.7	like any actions to take just to be nervous.
1:32.8	And it's another to have a scary conversation
1:36.0	and talk about a topic that we maybe sometimes try to avoid
1:39.9	and have some really good takeaways
1:41.3	where we're like, oh my my gosh I could be doing
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