23 Apr 7 Parenting Strategies to Help Children Cope With Anxiety
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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.
20 Apr Two Secret Weapons – Help for Anxiety Part 4
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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.
17 Apr The Suitcase Idea – Help for Anxiety Part 3
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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 its own.” Matthew 6:34. Even worrying about today can be overwhelming.
14 Apr Three Spiritual Truths That Empower Children – Help for Anxiety Part 2
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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.
12 Apr Two Quick-Fix Anxiety Solutions That Usually Don’t Work, Help for Anxiety Part 1
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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.
11 Mar Keep Discipline Positive by Affirming Approximately Right Behavior
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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.
03 Feb Anger at Kids May Seem Justified, but is Rarely Wise
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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 to us, "If you had an annoying brother like I do, you'd punch him up too."
13 Jan Parent to Your Child’s Strengths in Order to Address Weaknesses
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All children have good character qualities that, when taken to the extreme, have a negative side. One child may be quite organized, but if not careful, may become inflexible in a less structured situation. It's like the saying, "your strength can be your greatest weakness."
05 Jan Bad Days Need This Positive Tool
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There are things you can do on good days that you can't do on bad days. Good days are those days when a child is trying to overcome the weakness you've been working on. He's tried to respond better to instruction or is controlling his anger and not exploding when he doesn't get his way. At the end of a good day you're encouraged, believing that there may actually be hope for a positive future.