Under: Child Anxiety, Ask the Child Therapist/By: Natasha Daniels

Do You Want to Help a Child with Anxiety? First You Have to Learn How to Talk About it.

Your child is refusing to get out of the car. “What’s wrong!” You ask, growing more impatient. “I don’t want to go.” Your child pouts. “But why?” You beg, glancing at the time and wondering what excuse you’ll tell your boss this time. “I just don’t want to!” She screams at you. You’ve done this dance many times before. You wonder, how are you supposed to help a child with anxiety when they won’t even talk about it?

You can’t. If you haven’t developed an easy way to talk about anxiety, good luck trying to fix it. But have no fear, learning how to talk to a child about anxiety is pretty simple. And once you do that, you will be tons more successful when you are arming up to help a child with anxiety.