PSP: 261 Helping Anxious Kids Try New Things with Dawn Huebner
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Anxious kids often have a hard time trying new things. This might impact what they’ll eat, what activities they’ll try or how they feel about going to new places. It can permeate their lives in a way that limits their experiences and holds them back.
When we cater to these fears we can unintentionally grow them bigger. But when we force our kids to try new things we can them shut down.
So what are parents supposed to do?
The key is to help our kids build skills so they can not only tolerate new experiences, but eventually enjoy them too!
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast I invited Dawn Huebner back to the show to discuss ways we can help our kids build these skills.
In Dr. Dawn’s book, Facing Mighty Fears About Trying New Things, she teaches kids 6-10 years old how to bravely face new things.
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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. |
| 0:22.1 | Hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | As it go in, I hope everything's going okay with you, we're doing okay over here. |
| 0:35.0 | Today I want to talk to you about something that I'm sure you can relate to as much as |
| 0:41.1 | we can relate to it at my house, and that is the difficulty with our kids trying new things, |
| 0:48.5 | and it can honestly be anything. |
| 0:50.6 | It can be trying a new food, trying a new outfit, even transitioning from shorts to pants, |
| 0:57.8 | but also trying new experiences, going to new classes, or trying a new sport, or going |
| 1:06.5 | to a new place, going on vacation, trying a new bed, going to sleep over. |
| 1:11.7 | Oh my gosh, the list can go on and on. |
| 1:14.7 | And so I invited Dawn Hebner back to the show, we're going to be doing a couple, we're |
| 1:19.6 | doing a series of podcast interviews based on her new mini books about Mighty Fierce |
| 1:26.2 | series, where she actually is creating children's books with very specific topics, which I find |
| 1:32.6 | incredibly helpful, because I think the more poignant and succinct we can be about, the |
| 1:37.6 | issue that we're talking about with the child, the more it will resonate with them. |
| 1:42.0 | And so she has developed a series of four books on Mighty Fierce, one on trying new things, |
| 1:48.7 | one on a metaphor, we have a fear of throwing up, one on animals and insects, and the other |
| 1:55.2 | one is on health anxiety or health fears. |
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