Can You Help Your Kid’s Anxiety By Changing Your Behavior?
Death, Sex & Money
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How to Talk to a Parent About Micro Choices
I think it can work as a metaphor but I think we're trying to do more than just cry it out. There's parts of that that resonate because part of that is believing that your child will be okay even without you rescuing them so to speak in this moment. So the metaphor works on some levels but there's parts that aren't there as well. For a child avoiding circumstances that create anxiety does not diminish anxiety. In fact it can make it grow. It can make the idea of coming across that anxious circumstance again feel like something they need to avoid.
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