PSP 162: Dealing with OCD Compulsions, Anxious Thoughts and School Work Refusal during a Pandemic

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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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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As a parent to children with anxiety or OCD, our “normal” wasn’t that “normal” anyway. But now this new normal is taking us to new heights of abnormal.In this week’s podcast episode, I tackle the most common struggles parents are having as they continue to raise kids with anxiety and OCD during this pandemic.I tackle questions like:How am I supposed to get my child to do their work?How can I help my child with their anxious thoughts? The downtime is killing them.Should I be working on my child’s anxiety or OCD right now?How do I do exposures around separation anxiety when we aren’t going anywhere?How can I help my child with social anxiety when they don’t have to see anyone?How can I help my child with school anxiety when they don’t have to go to school?Let’s dive in, shall we?***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.comSign 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://www.ATparentingSurvivalSchool.comClasses include:How to Crush Social Anxietyhttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-social-anxietyParenting Kids with OCDhttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/child-ocdCrush Moral OCD in Kidshttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/moral-ocdTeaching Kids to Crush Anxietyhttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/crush-anxiety Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviorshttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/difficult-behaviorsHelping Kids Who are Scared to Sleephttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/scared-to-sleepHandling Sensory-Based Anxietyhttp://www.ATparentingsurvivalschool.com/p/sensory-anxietyLibrary of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays)http://www.ATparentingSurvivalschool.com/p/libraryUltimate list of helpful anxiety products:https://www.ATparentingsurvival.com/reduce-child-anxiety/To join my private Facebook group visit:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATparentinganxiouskids/Interested in my AT Parenting Community Membership? Get on the waitlist:http://www.atparentingcommunity.comFor 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/anxioustoddlers78Other social places I hang out:http://www.facebook.com/ATparentingsurvivalhttp://www.pinterest.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.twitter.com/parentingsurvivalhttp://www.instagram/ATparentingsurvival***

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0:00.0	Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the
0:08.2	Chaos of Parenting a Child with Anxiety or OCD. This show is for educational purposes and is not
0:14.8	intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. Here's your
0:18.9	host child therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:33.1	Well, hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT parenting survival podcast. I hope you're hanging in there. I feel like I always say that now. I hope things are going okay in your neck of the woods I know these are trying times and our new normal is
0:40.4	has been strange and bizarre for every family but I want to talk today about how
0:48.6	it's exceptionally hard for those of us that are raising kids with anxiety or OCD because our kids
0:56.3	have already had issues with uncertainty they already had issues with anxiety
1:02.2	and now globally the rest of the world is catching up with them and
1:08.0	everybody is having some anxiety and everybody is concerned with germs.
1:12.8	So this is impacting our kids in different ways and this episode is kind of like a hodge
1:17.4	podge of the top things I'm seeing across the board that are impacting the families I work with the most.
1:26.5	The families that I work with online in the AT parenting community and the
1:32.0	families that are in my practice who are raising kids with anxiety and
1:35.6	OCD. These are the questions I'm getting the most often. These are the
1:39.2	struggles that I'm seeing the most often. And so I thought we could just do kind of a schmouraged board of various issues, various topics,
1:48.5	and I can just touch on all of those and give you some quick pointers, some quick ideas on how to survive during this time.
1:56.0	So I hope you and your family are staying healthy and well.
2:00.1	We're trying to hang in there over here.
2:02.1	I can't remember if I talked about this last episode
2:04.4	where my daughter had to go to the hospital.
2:06.4	I think I may have.
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