PSP 193: How to Not Pass Our Fears onto Our Kids

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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🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our kids are emotional sponges. They soak up our happiness, but they also soak up our fears. Often when trying to help our kids with anxiety we might project our own worries onto them. Sometimes we might spread our fear throughout the house.

In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I dive into three main topics. First, how do we keep our fears in check during this global pandemic and societal unrest so we don’t inadvertently spread those fears to our children? Second, how can we decipher what are our fears and what are our child’s fears? Sometimes we smush the two together and reality gets blurred. Lastly, how can we respond to our kids when their anxiety makes us anxious? What can we do when sitting with our children’s anxiety creates our own?

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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.
0:27.4	Well, hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT parenting survival podcast. Today I want to talk to you about ourselves. You every once in a mile, I like to focus back to us
0:35.0	and today I want to talk to you about how do we not pass our fears
0:40.0	onto our kids?
0:42.0	And initially, when I thought about this topic, it was more about how
0:46.8	we kind of carry our own anxiety themes and how our own worries and how sometimes our kids don't carry those seams.
0:54.8	Sometimes they're not worried about the things that we're worried about.
0:58.0	But then, as I was thinking about what I was going to talk about today,
1:01.5	I realized that there's another bigger layer to this and that is that the climate of the
1:07.7	global pandemic, the political climate, there's a lot of unrest, uncertainty, unknown, and how do we not pass those fears as well to our
1:18.8	kids?
1:19.8	So one intention blended into the other, and I think I'll cover both so I'll talk
1:24.8	first about just general stuff you know the world in general and how how you're
1:31.2	doing and how you're handling it and how we can do okay for our kids and still not be okay.
1:38.2	So I want to talk about that first, but then I am going to go into your own anxiety themes,
1:43.0	your own anxious fears, and how do you,
1:45.9	how do you separate those out and not put your own themes
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