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When our children feel anxious or afraid, it can be difficult for parents to know exactly how they should respond. Many parents put pressure on themselves to solve or fix this problem for their child, which is often impossible and a less than ideal way to handle this tricky situation.

Joining me to talk about childhood anxiety and offer support for parents navigating this in their own family is the author of Goodbye, Anxiety: A Guided Journal for Overcoming Worry, Dr. Terri Bacow.

You’ll learn a framework you can use that will work toward helping your child learn to cope with their anxiety, rather than avoiding their fear, and factors to help you determine if and when it’s time to seek professional support.

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79. Helping your child cope with anxiety: A conversation with clinical psychologist Dr. Terri Bacow

childhood anxiety

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73. I don’t want to play with you: How to handle peer rejection in toddlerhood Q&A with Dr. Emily Upshur

Sad toddler girl with hand on her face, looking off-camera in distress

Is your child struggling with peer rejection or saying hurtful things like, “You can’t play with us”? In this episode, Dr. Emily Upshur and Dr. Sarah Bren share ways to help toddlers build empathy, handle rejection, and strengthen emotional regulation.

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64. Moving beyond parenting scripts: Fostering deep, authentic and connected conversations with your kids with Rebecca Rolland

Learn the secrets of effective communication with kids

This episode will help you to understand just how powerful language can be and teach you to actionable techniques for fostering authentic and natural conversations with your children, no matter their age, that can lead to the development of a strong and secure attachment bond.

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61. Giving our children enough space to grow and learn: Raising self-confident and resilient children with Nellie Harden

Raising self-confident and resilient children

In this episode we’ll talk about why and how you can use your parent-child relationship as an incredibly effective motivator for kids, how to help children understand the difference between fair and equal by breaking it down into terms they can understand, how trusting in your children teaches them to trust in themselves, and many other valuable lessons every parent will want to learn!

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