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I'm Kavita Kadoza and this is NPR's Life Kit.

Watching a child deal with anxiety is tough.

It's tempting to focus on wanting to make that anxiety go away.

When we were approached to write a book on anxiety,

they actually asked us to write a book about trying to get rid of it for kids.

And we told them that we have a different

take on it, that this is part of us, so it's not about getting rid of. It's about transforming.

That's Rini Jane. She's the founder of Gozen. She and her co-author, Sheffali Sabri,

wanted to take a different approach to kids and anxiety when they

were writing a book on the topic. We wanted to really take it head on and normalize it and really

get kids to embrace it, which sounds strange to most parents and most kids when they first hear that.

Their book, Superpowered, Transform Anxiety into Courage, Confidence and Resilience,

helps children change their relationship with their anxiety, rather than change the anxiety itself.

A radical idea, they say, in a society that tries to ignore hard feelings.

It's revolutionary to feel your feelings in today's world, and that's really a tragedy.

Sheffali and Rini explain that all children are born with five superpowers.

Superpowers that are key to reframing anxiety.

The problem is that children lose these superpowers as they get older, but they can take them back.

While the reading age for their book is technically 8 to 12.

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