When Our Kids Are Scared
Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled
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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
How can we help our kids overcome their fears? Most of us have the instinct to provide comfort with messages like "don't worry, you're safe, it will be alright." In this episode, Janet explains why our children often need more than our reassurance, even when their fears seem unreasonable or overblown. The key: validating and encouraging each child's intuitive process. Janet provides details by responding to notes from three families who have concerns about their children's seemingly irrational fears.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, before we begin, I just want to remind you to please check out my new |
| 0:07.6 | No Bad Kids Master course. |
| 0:09.6 | You can find out all about it at nobadkidscourse.com. |
| 0:14.5 | Hi, this is Janet Lansbury, welcome to Unruffled. |
| 0:21.5 | Today I'm going to be talking about fears, our children's fears. |
| 0:27.1 | We could sort of divide them into two general categories. |
| 0:30.8 | One is these fears that seem so irrational and it's almost hard for us to relate to them |
| 0:36.6 | and understand them. |
| 0:38.5 | Those are the types of fears that I'm going to be specifically addressing with the |
| 0:42.1 | parents that have reached out to me in this podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | But I'll also be touching on fears that children have as a result of being exposed to something |
| 0:52.9 | not age-appropriate, something that would scare any of us. |
| 0:58.0 | Our process in both of these cases and helping our children to work through their fears |
| 1:02.5 | and make sense of them and come to grips with them is quite similar in all of these |
| 1:09.0 | cases. |
| 1:10.0 | And I really hope this is helpful. |
| 1:14.3 | Okay, so as I said, there are really two categories of fears. |
| 1:22.3 | The seemingly irrational fears that don't really make sense, they can be about things that |
| 1:27.3 | seem very small and would not be scary to us as parents. |
| 1:31.9 | And then there are fears that are unfortunate that our child has to be exposed to or experience, |
| 1:39.5 | not to blame ourselves, it happens. |
| 1:42.5 | Both of these types of fears are challenging in different ways for us to deal with. |
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