Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through

the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.

This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of

a qualified professional.

Here's your host, child therapist Natasha Daniels.

Well, hello there and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast.

So for most of us, summer is on its way or is already here and for most of us, that means

that our kids are not going to be in school and they're going to have a lot of downtime.

And intuitively, you would think that that's a great thing that, you know, they're not going

to have to worry about rushing around, they're not going to have to worry about going to

school, about peer pressure, all the things that can really make anxiety or OCD far worse.

But there are some downsides.

I'm going to talk about kind of the downsides of downtime and, you know, I don't like

to complain about a problem without giving a solution.

So I'm going to talk about how to be proactive, maybe nip this in the bud before it even

gets started and set yourself up for success before your summer even gets started.

But before we get started with that, I do want to say thank you to no CD because no

CD sponsoring this episode and no CD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy.

They are available in the US and outside of the US and you can schedule a free 15 minute

consultation to see if no CD is a right fit for you and your child.

Let's go to treatmyocd.com, that is treatmyocd.com, I'll leave a link in the show notes.

Okay, so let's talk about summer.

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