David Thomas, LMSW

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358 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Apr

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · Why Your Child’s Anxiety Might Be Coming From You | Sissy Goff, MEd, LPC-MHSP & David Thomas, LMSW · 3 Apr 2026 podcast

And she, anytime we try to encourage her to, she cries and cries and cries.

And so we put her in a room and she cries and cries and cries.

And I don't know what to do because I'm so afraid that I'm going to really do damage to our relationship if she's in a room crying.

And I think that's part of it.

It's circling back to exactly what we talked about.

There's so much noise.

So many people are talking to parents about empathy, empathy, empathy all the time and attunement, which is understanding and helping feel with kids what they're feeling and that there's not that piece of helping them figure out how to work through their feelings.

It's just the hearing them.

And so this mom was so afraid it would damage their relationship for her daughter to cry in her room for a little bit before she fell asleep.

And so I think that's such a piece of it.

Again, I'm going to hurt them.

I'm going to damage our relationship permanently.

I don't want to be the bad guy when, in fact, a lot of parenting is that you can be the bad guy with kindness and with empathy, too.

I read an article on how to have an adult temper tantrum.

I would say in today's world, I'm not talking to as many parents who are spanking probably as I used when we first started this.

It doesn't really get brought up much anymore.

Not as much.

No.

I think most parents are saying, what are tools?

What do I do when this starts?

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