PSP 413: When Your Child’s OCD & Anxiety Turn Into School Avoidance
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Anxiety and OCD can abruptly put the brakes on our children’s education.This is one of the most disruptive and concerning aspects of our children’s OCD or anxiety. It is a slippery slope that can gain momentum and get out of control rather quickly.
In this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I explore how to identify the core fear around school refusal, how to decipher if it is a school issue versus an anxiety or OCD issue, and how to navigate the issue without making school avoidance worse.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.0 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.2 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, I'm going to be talking |
| 0:29.3 | about something that so many of us struggle with, and that is the school avoidance, |
| 0:36.0 | school refusal that kids with anxiety and OCD often have. |
| 0:41.5 | And we call it school refusal, but I actually see it as school avoidance because I don't think |
| 0:46.5 | our kids want to refuse school. I think anxiety and OCD just makes it so overwhelming that it |
| 0:52.7 | becomes this battleground that becomes a huge issue. |
| 0:59.3 | Because when we can't get our kids to do some basic things like get an education, |
| 1:03.6 | we get into crisis mode really quickly. |
| 1:06.0 | So we're going to dive into where do you go with that? |
| 1:08.6 | What are some concrete steps to take? |
| 1:10.6 | And what are some pitfalls? |
| 1:11.9 | Because there are a lot of pitfalls that happen around dealing with this issue. But before we get |
| 1:18.6 | started, I do want to thank NoCD for sponsoring this episode. NoCD offers affordable, effective, |
| 1:24.9 | convenient therapy. And they're luckily available in the U.S. and outside the |
| 1:29.2 | U.S. You can schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if an OCD is the right fit for you and your |
| 1:35.5 | child. Just go to treat myoced.com. That is treat myoced.com. I'll also leave a link in the show |
| 1:42.6 | notes. I also want to let you know that I have a therapeutic |
| 1:47.8 | OCD card deck. And so if you have kids that are struggling and they need to build those OCD |
| 1:54.3 | skills, it's a muscle and it has to be worked out every day. And just surviving OCD is not working on that muscle. That's just survival. |
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