Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled Helping Your Child Overcome Anxieties, Fears, and Rocky Transitions
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Sep 2, 2025 Young children often struggle with anxieties and aggressive behaviors during tough transitions, like starting school. The importance of normalizing their feelings is discussed, guiding parents on how to support emotional well-being. Strategies include helping kids express their fears, preparing for changes, and establishing routines at bedtime. The host shares effective methods to create a nurturing environment, making it easier for children to cope with their emotions and adjust to new situations.
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Children Process Feelings In Three Steps
- Children process upsetting experiences by feeling, sharing, and exploring them rather than by adults fixing them.
- Trusting this three-step process helps children move through anxieties naturally.
Fixing Fears Can Make Them Worse
- Parents' instinct to immediately fix or minimize children's fears can unintentionally amplify them.
- Allowing repeated sharing normalizes the fear and accelerates healing.
Family Movie Choices Backfired
- Janet shares a childhood story where harmless-seeming movies terrified her kids and created nightmares.
- The example shows how even old or understated transformations can deeply unsettle sensitive children.