When addressing anxiety, it’s usually necessary to embrace a multi-tool approach. Notice how the following tools can work independently but also dove-tail together to form a more complete strategy....
Anxiety is a difficult problem in anyone’s life. Parents’ hearts go out to their children who suffer from emotional overload, racing thoughts, and continual feelings of unrest because of anxiety. That’s not what childhood is supposed to be like....
God didn’t create our hearts big enough to hold all of the worries and concerns about life. For those who are concerned about the future, he said, “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of...
Understanding how God made a person can provide extremely helpful tools for managing anxiety. The following truths alone or in combination can have a powerful effect on a child’s emotional state. Spiritual solutions for emotional challenge usually provide the deepest change....
Continual fears and feeling upset can dominate a child’s lifestyle. Kids can develop tendencies to process the world as dangerous, to imagine harm, and feel a lack of control....
One way to keep a positive focus in your discipline is to look for approximately right behavior and affirm it. Don't wait until things are absolutely right....
Attitudes become a problem when negative emotions affect behavior and relationships. It's not wrong to feel bad, but when you act out because of those negative feelings then people get hurt....
Parents often use the fact that they're right to justify poor parenting responses toward their children. In fact, most people who unleash their anger at others believe that they're right, and often they are. Kids fall into the same problematic thinking. One nine-year-old boy said...