When your child is upset or seems irrational there could be a good reason underneath

the surface for his or her behavior and today we're going to explore that give you

some ideas on how to help your child deal with what might be called negative feelings.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werther who runs our parenting team here at Focus on the Family.

Let's go ahead and kick off though with part of a conversation

that Jim Daly and I had with Josh and Christie Straub.

They're very open about things that they've worked through with their own kids and here's

Christie talking about how they helped their son land in when he was afraid to go to school.

Christie, you design this book to help young children identify their emotional

responses and this came from I think a real life situation that you had with

your son Landon and it's a cute story. What happened?

Yeah, we, I mean, we're just average parents,

and we, and I mean that in every sense, like,

we were sending our son, he was going to a new school at the time, and he was just experiencing a ton of weird emotional reaction, like that we really couldn't pin down.

He was crying in the mornings, he was begging us not to go, he was having

weird even just like physical reactions in his body and finally one day, you know, and we're trying

to be the courageous parents that are like, we can do hard things, you know and we're trying to be the courageous parents that are like we can do

hard things you know we would never send you to a school that we didn't believe in and

where you weren't safe and it nothing was helping honestly it was getting

worse and so one morning I said like planet Nothing was helping, getting worse.

And so one morning I said, like,

Clannin, what does it feel like?

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