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How Anxiety Turns Into Manipulation

Anxiety is often an overestimation of the problem and an underestimation of themselves. Anxious kids to think about doing whatever is making them anxious feels like the scariest thing they can imagine doing in that moment. They're going to say anything they can, like a drowning victim, going down to not have to do the thing. The two most common parenting strategies, when kids are anxious, are escaping avoidance or pulling them out.

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