PSP 401: Are We Inadvertently Contributing to Our Child’s Helplessness?
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
We all want our kids with anxiety or OCD to believe in themselves. We want them to try hard things. We want them to push through their fears. But we only have so much control on how motivated they are to do those things to help themselves.
We do, however, have control over how we show up to our child’s battle with anxiety or OCD.
When we over accommodate, over enable and cocoon our kids from all discomfort and failure, we rob them of the opportunity to develop resilience.
It is a balancing act and it looks different for each child.
In this week’s episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I talk about how to find the sweet spot of empowering our kids to face their anxiety or OCD, while not pushing them over the edge.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos |
| 0:08.7 | 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 a qualified |
| 0:17.2 | professional. |
| 0:18.7 | Here's your host, Child Therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.4 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today I'm going to talk to you |
| 0:29.3 | about, guess what could be considered a little bit of a touchy subject, but it won't be as we get into it. |
| 0:35.8 | But I wanted to pose the question, are we inadvertently contributing |
| 0:40.4 | to our child's helplessness? Now, hear me out. It won't be a feel horrible, feel guilty kind of |
| 0:47.3 | episode. But it's this balancing act that we have to find in cheerleading our kids to sit with discomfort, to walk towards their anxiety or |
| 0:56.6 | OCD, and believe in them and also know when it's not going to work out. So I'm going to talk |
| 1:04.8 | about that balance and how to find it when we jump into this episode. But before we get started, |
| 1:10.8 | I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode. |
| 1:14.1 | NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and it's available in the U.S. |
| 1:19.6 | and outside the U.S. |
| 1:20.8 | You can schedule your free 15-minute consultation to see if no CD is a right fit for you and your child, just go to |
| 1:28.5 | TreatmyocD.com. That is treat myoced.com. I'll also leave a link in the show notes. |
| 1:36.0 | I have another free series coming up very soon just in a few weeks. So if you are a parent raising |
| 1:41.4 | kids with anxiety or OCD, which most of you are, or you |
| 1:45.0 | work with parents raising kids with anxiety OCD, you don't want to miss this upcoming series |
| 1:49.7 | to support you on how to effectively support our kids with anxiety or OCD or and OCD. Sometimes |
| 1:57.5 | they have both. You can register at AT Parenting SurvivalSeries.com. |
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