The Daily Dad

What Is Your Anxiety Doing to Them?

May 13, 2020

03:05

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The podcast discusses the impact of anxiety on fatherhood and how it affects relationships with children. It highlights the costs of excessive anxiety and emphasizes the importance of prioritizing connection with children.

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Anxiety in parenting creates tunnel vision, leading to missed opportunities for fun and damaged relationships.

Recognizing that anxiety is harmful and not beneficial allows parents to regain control and prioritize being present with their children.

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The impact of anxiety on parenting

Anxiety can have detrimental effects on parenting, as it consumes thoughts and changes behavior. It creates tunnel vision, leading to missed opportunities for fun and damaged relationships. Anxiety may not actually make children safer but instead distances parents from being fully present in their lives. It is important to recognize the costs of anxiety and its potential harm to oneself and children, and to actively discard and manage it.

The Impact of Anxiety on Fatherhood

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"You’re anxious. You’re stressed. You want them to be safe. You worry about what they’re doing when you’re not there. You worry about their future. You worry they might not get into the school you have your heart set on. You stress over their friend who might be a bad influence. You stress about the cars zooming by your house. You’re nervous about COVID-19 and climate change and global unrest and everything else on the news. You don’t want anything bad to happen—to them, to you, to anyone. In the tunnel vision of your anxiety, these things are all you can think about. "

That anxiety doesn't come without its own negative side effects, as Ryan details in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.

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