The Peaceful Parenting Podcast "I'm not going to school!" School Avoidance and Anxiety with Lynn Lyons
This episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast is my fourth interview with anxiety expert Lynn Lyons! We discuss how to handle school avoidance, including: how to figure out the root cause of school avoidance, how anxiety works including physical symptoms, and how to teach parents and children how to handle anxiety when it inevitably shows up.
We talk about:
4:31 Finding the root cause to school avoidance
7:00 Using “home days” when kids need a break
9:00 Normalizing needing breaks, rather than pathologizing
11:40 Emotionally based school avoidance- includes anxiety and depression
16:00 How anxiety can cause physical symptoms like stomach aches and headaches
23:03 Teaching kids and parents to tolerate uncertainty
30:00 Why techniques to “get rid” of worry don’t work
32:00 How to talk back to worry
48:13 How to handle “The Moment of Goodbye” when dropping kids off
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Three Skills to Protect Our Kids’ Mental Health with Lynn Lyons https://reimaginepeacefulparenting.com/episode35/
Membership Q&A – How to Help Anxious Kids in Real Life Scenarios with Lynn Lyons https://reimaginepeacefulparenting.com/episode45/
How Anxiety Shows Up in Our Parenting and What to Do About It with Lynn Lyons https://reimaginepeacefulparenting.com/episode-99-how-anxiety-shows-up-in-our-parenting-and-what-to-do-about-it-with-lynn-lyons/
Lynn Lyon’s podcast Flusterclux https://www.flusterclux.com/episodes/
Lynn’s website https://www.lynnlyons.com/
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