ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: Parenting Anxious Kids: Tips, Tricks, & Strategies to Help Everyone in Your Family Better Cope
As parents, it is TOUGH to watch our kids struggling with anxiety. And it’s also hard to know exactly how best to help! Dr. Nina Kaiser provides a road map around HOW to support your child-- both in terms of how to respond to kids in the moments that they are anxious, and also in terms of how to talk about and plan for anxiety proactively in order to make it more likely that kids build the skills they need to navigate new anxiety-provoking situations as they come up.
Topics covered include:
An overview of what we know about how anxiety works
Why kids’ anxiety is triggering for us as parents (and how to cope!)
Language for talking with our kids about anxiety
Ideas for how to work with our kids in the moment they are experiencing anxiety in order to help them calm down
Ways to encourage kids to access and use anxiety management tools
Parent strategies for responding to reassurance-seeking behavior
Parent strategies for managing anxiety-related avoidance
Answers to questions like:
How do we as parents support kids with using their words when they're overwhelmed with anxiety?
How can you better prepare kids for situations that you wouldn't expect to trigger their anxiety?
How to get kids to open up about experiences that were stressful for them after the fact?
Some of our favorite resources for parents of anxious kids.
