When your children are little it's pretty common for them to wrestle with fear.

In fact, when I was little I wrestled with fear. I remember one time I woke up and I was certain

there was a swarm of bees in my bedroom and I was certain there was a swarm of bees in my bedroom and I was deathly afraid of getting stung by them and it took a long time to kind of cut through the mental fog and for my dad to say no that's the nightlight reflecting off the

mirror it's not a swarm of bees but we're going to talk about fear and

anxiety today on the podcast I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny Wertha. He leads our parenting department here and

let's listen to a clip featuring Dr. Josh Straub and his wife, Christie. They have young children

and they're teaching those kids to really

understand and combat fear. Here they are sharing part of their

journey with Jim Daly. Josh and Christie, welcome back. It's so good to see you.

Thanks for having us.

We love to be here.

Always an honor.

What a great theme, you know, we're kind of coming out of a turbulent time

with the pandemic and all and let's start there that fear that

children are feeling right now generally how do you go about parenting that?

Yeah, it's a big loaded question.

I think, you know, one of the most important factors is being able to look at identifying in your children, maybe changes in behavior, patterns that

have changed over time in your children's behavior. And this is where we have to become students of our kids because

every child is different and every child manages their emotions differently.

For example you might have some children who just withdraw and they go into hiding.

You know, it's like they become more quiet.

Other kids might be on the other end of the spectrum and they start acting out.

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