PSP 136: How to Talk to Your Child When Something Bad Happened Locally or Globally | Dawn Huebner

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 September 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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It seems like more and more these days we are having to cope with some horrific things. Mass shootings, school shootings, bombings, hate crimes, environmental disasters and devastating weather are things that we and our children have to contend with all too often. How do we talk to kids when something bad happened?It is tricky. Many of us just avoid it altogether. But unfortunately our kids do not live in a bubble.I invited Dawn Huebner to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast to dive deeper into this topic. She is one of my absolute favorite authors! She is the author behind What to Do When You Worry too Much, Outsmarting Worry and What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck…just to name a few!She has just released her new book called, Something Bad Happened. In her new book, she helps kids process local and global tragedies that are happening all around us. She gives a beautiful perspective and an uplifting view on a somber topic.On the podcast, Dawn offers some great advice for parents and gives her perspective on how to help our kids in these changing times.To check out her new book, Something Bad Happened go to: https://amzn.to/2m9j1Vu***To sign up for the free picky eating online workshop go to: www.bit.ly/pickyeatingworkshop19To enroll in Alisha Grogan's picky eating online class, go to: www.bit.ly/pickyeatingclass19

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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
0:16.2	Podcast. Hope you're doing well today. I have today one of my favorite children's
0:21.7	authors. You are probably familiar with her work if you're not
0:24.8	familiar with her name. So I have invited Don Hebner to the podcast. She is the author of
0:30.8	what to do when your brain gets stuck and what to do when you worry too much.
0:35.0	Among a lot of other books, her most recent book, separate from what just came out, is Outsmarting Worry,
0:42.0	which I don't mention in the podcast episode but is
0:44.9	actually my favorite book so you want to check that out it's a good book for
0:49.3	kids who are have anxiety or OCD and it's more of a chapter book and so I like the format of
0:55.3	that one but definitely for little people what to do when your brain gets stuck is a
0:59.3	good one and when bad habits take hold is a good one for biting and picking and all that kind of stuff.
1:07.0	But she's on the podcast today because she just has a new book coming out called
1:11.5	something bad happen, a kid's guide to coping with events. She just has a new book coming out called Something Bad Happen,
1:13.4	a Kids Guide to Copying with Events in the News,
1:16.3	which is a very specific and needed topic.
1:19.7	I am not familiar with really any other book out there that is a kids book that addresses
1:25.6	how to help them when something happens that's tragic. So this book is not for
1:32.3	you know trauma that happens in a child's life and to them. It's more about these things that have been happening in our world.
1:38.0	So natural disasters or
1:45.0	you know all the many other different things the environmental disasters that we're seeing the hate crimes
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