PSP 182: Helping Anxious Kids Wear Masks

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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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Masks are a struggle for many kids, but if your child has anxiety or OCD it can be a much BIGGER struggle. This could be due to many reasons. Maybe they feel claustrophobic. Maybe they have sensory issues. Or maybe they have social anxiety and it seems embarrassing. Regardless of what the struggle is the end result is the same – a child refusing to wear a mask.This becomes extra tricky when masks are required in many areas. So in this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I outline some mask hacks to help reduce your child’s anxiety and get them to acclimate to the discomfort.Mini-Coaching Episodes:I am starting my mini-coaching episodes! Do you want to be a $5 mini-coaching sponsor and be able to submit questions for the episode? Or a $10 coaching sponsor and get an additional gift of 30% off all my classes? Or a $40 super-sized sponsor and get all that plus…access to the AT Parenting Community (even though it is closed. Learn more at www.ATparentingCommunity.com) plus a personalized video for your child or teen? The last sponsorship level has only 10 spots due to the level of work in creating those videos.I would love to provide you personalized support and guidance for whatever you are going through. You can sponsor the mini-coaching episodes by going here to sign up: www.patreon.com/atparentingsurvivalProducts Discussed in Episode:(Affiliate links)Ear Extenders for Masks: https://amzn.to/3hE7eXjInner Support Frame for Masks: https://amzn.to/3aTbiA5***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-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.
0:23.7	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.
0:28.1	I hope you guys are doing well. I know a lot of you are going back to school or have been back at school with your kids and I hope that's going okay.
0:37.0	We are kind of into the swing of things. I think this is week four or five for my kids. Five seems too long but I don't know and we are starting to
0:45.8	get our rhythm. We had some severe growing pains but hopefully it goes smoothly
0:50.7	for you. Today I want to talk to you about how to help our kids wear masks.
0:55.5	This is, who would have thought I would be doing a topic like this? I often think what life would be like
1:01.6	if my current self could go back to my past self and
1:05.0	tell me what's been going on and I would think it was like a sci-fi movie or something.
1:10.0	You're going to be doing podcasts on how to get kids to wear masks during a global pandemic.
1:14.0	And I'd be like, what? No, I'm not. You're crazy. But yeah, here I am.
1:19.0	So this is actually a question I get a lot because anxious kids have more issues with
1:26.4	wearing a mask than even your average child. I mean it's a struggle even for your
1:30.3	average child but then when you layer on anxiety or OCD to the mix, we have some more difficult
1:37.6	struggles. We have kids who have, you know, feeling like they're choking or feeling like they're
1:42.2	getting suffocated.
1:43.7	We have kids who have social anxiety and worry that it's embarrassing or it looks weird.
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