PSP 134: Helping Kids Who Have a Fear of Bad Guys

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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🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Hands down the number one fear I deal with as a child therapist is the fear of bad guys. It isn’t surprising. I remember being a child myself, sitting in my bed, blanket up to my neck, wondering not if, but when would I be attacked.The fear is often dealt with platitudes like:I’m right here Who is going to hurt you Nothing has ever happened to you Why do you worry so muchIn this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I explore why those platitudes aren’t helpful and what to do and say instead.To get a free PDF on 15 of some of the Most Common Reasons Why Kids are Scared to Sleep, go to: www.bit.ly/sleepfearsTo learn more about the sleep class go to: www.bit.ly/sleepclass19

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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
0:16.3	Podcast. Hope you're having a great day. Today we're going to talk about
0:19.9	something that is so common that I'm almost positive that most of you have
0:24.3	had children who experience this at one time or another or maybe you have. And that is
0:29.1	the fear of bad guys. That is a rudimentary common fear not only for kids who have issues with anxiety or
0:37.1	OCD but for people in general it's a common anxiety theme whether you have an anxiety disorder or not. But those of us that have
0:45.8	anxiety disorders, more often than not will have this theme pop up at least once in our life,
0:52.0	because the fear of bad guys is just so so common.
0:55.2	So today I'm going to go into the myths.
0:57.9	I want to start up with the myths because these are the things that people believe but
1:01.2	they're inaccurate and when you believe these things it
1:04.2	doesn't help because it makes you do things that aren't going to help the issue.
1:07.3	I'm going to then move into things that you should avoid, things that you don't really
1:11.7	need to be doing because they're not going to help your child.
1:14.0	And then we're going to lastly talk about things to do.
1:17.0	So before we get started, I do want to tell you about something that is going on right now so that you do not miss it because
1:23.6	there's a lot happening this week in the AT parenting survival world. So for
1:28.6	starters I have a webinar that is starting tomorrow if you listen to this in real time and not five years from now.
1:38.0	I have a webinar that's starting on September 11th, 2019, just for those of you that are in a completely different year, and just
1:45.2	started listening to me, well thank you, but you're in the past.
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