Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD.

This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.

Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there,

and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, we're going to be

talking about something that a lot of us do, even when we know that this isn't really the way to deal

with OCD. But some parents don't know this.

So I thought it would be good to do an episode to explain why trying to reason with your child's

OCD backfires. This is something that a lot of us catch ourselves doing or a lot of times I'll see

comments on social media of things like, I don't understand,

like they won't touch this, but they'll touch that and that makes no sense to me.

Or they have all these rules at home, but they don't at school.

Or they have all these rules outside of the house, but not at home, like vice versa.

And it really goes back to this idea that OCD is not rational.

And when you think OCD's rational, you've already kind of missed the point.

So we're going to get into that and talk about some things that we

naturally do as parents. And then we're going to talk about why it doesn't work for OCD and what

actually to do that can help. But before we jump in, I do want to thank No CD for sponsoring this

episode. NoCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy, and they're available in the

U.S. and outside the U.S. You can schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if no-CD is the

right fit for you and your child. Just go to treat myocd.com. That's treat myoced.com. I'll leave a link

in the show notes as well. So let's jump into today's

episode. There is a PDF handout. So if you like handouts or if you're a note taker, you don't have

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