PSP 177: Preparing Our Anxious Kids for an Uncertain School Year

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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🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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There is one thing for sure, next school year is completely uncertain. Will kids go back to school? Will they wear masks? Will school be online or in person? There are more questions than answers when we look ahead.So how do you help an anxious child who craves consistency and stability when reality is anything but that right now? We can’t provide complete comfort, but there are a few things we can do to mitigate some of the struggle.In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I talk about some potential struggles, and some approaches to take to help your anxious kids.***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 OCD http://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-anxietyHelping 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/ATparentingsurvivalhttp://www.twitter.com/atsurvivalhttp://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.
0:12.1	This show is for educational purposes
0:14.3	and is not intended to replace the guidance
0:16.5	of a qualified professional.
0:18.6	Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:27.6	Well, hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT parenting surveillance podcast. I hope you and your family are staying healthy and are doing well. We are at the
0:33.8	Daniel's house trying to stay healthy and do well. So far so good. Knock on wood.
0:38.2	There we go. And actually my son will be knocking as well in the background.
0:42.8	Hopefully you won't be able to hear him because he is currently trying to excavate
0:47.1	some gems out of some hard clay.
0:50.3	You know those like National Geographic like toys where they embed rocks and then your child
0:56.4	has to like dig it out? Yeah, that's what's going on over here.
0:59.4	Something to get him off of the computer and doing something with his hands.
1:04.7	So I want to talk today and it's about that.
1:08.3	Like how do we prepare our kids for the next school year when really we don't even know
1:12.4	what's going to be happening. The unknown
1:14.6	can be really hard for kids with anxiety or OCD, the lack of routine, the constant
1:20.5	change, all of those issues can bring about a lot of stress and anxiety. Not only
1:27.3	for our kids, but actually for us as well. So I wanted to do this episode to just talk about some ways that we can mitigate some of that stress.
1:36.7	We can't mitigate all of it obviously because there's only so much we can do when the reality
1:41.0	is a stressful situation.
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