Parenting Tips Linky: How to help with anxiety in children

My daughter can be a bit of a worrier, and I know that she isn’t the only one as well; anxiety in children can be a serious worry for us parents. How to deal with it, how we can ease fears, and so on.

Therefore, in a time when many kids are going back to school, and might be a wee bit anxious and nervous about this, we thought it would be a good idea to pull together the resources that we can find on helping anxiety in children whatever the situation is that they are facing.

Some tips that we have found work really well when my daughter is anxious include:

• Give plenty of opportunities for your child to talk to you, even creating a particular time of day when you chat about what has happened to them over the course of the last 24 hours
• Developing specific coping strategies for worries that work for YOUR child; from using worry stones to drawing a worry tree to place your worries and talk about them when you are ready
• Always be approachable and take worries seriously no matter how small they might seem to you. If we listen when are children are younger, we are much more likely to find that they are willing to talk to us when those worries become bigger and more problematic as they grow up.

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I hope you find good info on helping anxious and worried children here, if you do let us know, and if you have your own wee nuggets of advice and no blog, feel free to leave us a comment. We would love to hear from you. Without further ado – here is the linky!

Helen Neale

Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, website editor and a qualified counsellor with experience of working with both children and adults.She is a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapists, with her own private practise. She also freelances with her local Mind organisation.Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, use those grey cells at the same time, and supplement her counselling income.KiddyCharts has reach of over 680k across socials and the site. The site works with big family brands to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. She is a specialist counsellor for neurodivergent individuals and brings this expertise to her resources and the site. She is also an ADHDer herself.KiddyCharts gives 51%+ profits to charities, focused on supporting mental health and a community in TanzaniaHelen has also worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on.Get in touch TODAY!

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