How can we tell when it's anxiety and when it's a preference?

Figuring out when to intervene with our anxious child is tricky and it's personal. Here are some questions to consider as you're trying to figure it out.

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How do I make my anxious child change?

Parents reach out for help because they need their anxious child to learn to not be anxious or to handle their anxiety more effectively. But we can't make our anxious child or even want to change. What we can do is focus on our own change. In this week's episode, we dig into this uncomfortable truth.

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What do you do when a child is still as anxious if not more anxious of something after exposing them to it?

This question from a listener gives us the opportunity to talk about some of the details we need to know to appropriate address our individual child's anxiety, especially around things like school refusal. 

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Is it my anxiety? Or my child's?

This week I explain why it almost doesn't matter whose anxiety started the anxious patterns in the family because the intervention is the same -- at least to start. Also if you'd like to sign up for the free webinar "Tell Me It Will Be OK: How to Talk About Your Child's Anxiety (without making things worse)" just head here: ChildAnxietySupport.com/webinar

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