PSP 239 Accommodation vs Validation in Kids with Anxiety or OCD
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Even though we don’t want to accommodate our child’s anxiety or OCD, it doesn’t mean that we can’t support or reassure our kids.
Yes, I said reassure our kids. It’s how we reassure our kids that matters. Do we reassure their anxiety or OCD, or do we reassure them.
It is important to validate our children’s feelings and help them problem-solve. It is also helpful to reassure them that they’ve got this!
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I talk about the difference between accommodation versus validation, problem-solving and healthy reassurance.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through |
| 0:08.1 | the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.1 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of |
| 0:16.5 | a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels. |
| 0:22.3 | Well, hello there and welcome to their episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:30.6 | I hope that your holidays are going well. |
| 0:32.6 | I feel like we are like into the swing of things like you hit November, well, actually |
| 0:37.3 | you hit October and we're like running hard into the holidays. |
| 0:42.0 | So for those of you that celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope it went well. |
| 0:45.8 | I know that could be super tricky with our kids for just a variety of reasons. |
| 0:51.3 | I did do a podcast episode on how to navigate holidays and what that may bring up for |
| 0:56.6 | your family. |
| 0:57.6 | If you celebrate holidays, just the level of chaos and food and the gatherings, there's |
| 1:03.4 | a whole bunch of things that can trigger our kids. |
| 1:05.9 | So if you didn't catch my episode last week, that episode is episode 238 and it's all |
| 1:11.4 | about how to help our kids navigate those things that pop up in the holidays. |
| 1:15.5 | So hopefully you'll find that helpful. |
| 1:17.6 | We actually were invited to a friend's house and it was really nice because it was low |
| 1:20.9 | key and it was just my friends family and ours and it was our first holiday season without |
| 1:27.1 | my husband passed away in February. |
| 1:30.0 | And so, you know, those firsts are really hard. |
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