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112: Anxiety and Aggression with Karen Young

The Peaceful Parenting Podcast

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Anxiety and Aggression

Anxiety is anything that might make a brain register threat. Threat doesn't mean it's actually unsafe. It's about what the brain perceives. We have to remember for children this doesn't have to be big triggers. Their brains don't to recognize that, you know, it's not a big deal. With anxiety, we tend to go big or we go small. But we also have to remember that a really valid response from the body is to go big, and that can look like anger. Anger's very energizing. So it's all about getting our bodies ready to fight or run away. This is not bad children. This isNot bad parenting, but a really normal

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