Dawn Huebner

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 113: Psychologist Dr. Dawn Huebner on Helping Children Who Worry Too Much · 19 Jun 2018 podcast

And one of the things that's really useful is it doesn't have to be an all or none sort of thing.

So there's a metaphor that often gets used about jumping into a swimming pool.

And when you jump into a pool, you're getting used to the cold water.

So you can jump into a scary situation.

You can kind of thrust yourself into the situation to get used to it all at once, like jumping into a pool, or you can go in a

step by step way, same way that you can gradually lower yourself into a pool.

And when kids are nervous about something, it's often possible not not to like, you know, push them or force them into the full situation, but to help them work out kind of a hierarchy where they're gradually moving towards that situation.

And learning how to do that is is important and empowering to kids to gradually approach something that's scary for them or hard for them.

Absolutely.

And when your child is having specific difficulty with anxiety, I think it's helpful to slip in the language about the worry.

So to say something like, You didn't let your worry be in charge of that or you took control of that even though your worry was telling you you couldn't.

So to

I really want children to understand that they don't have to let their worry be the boss.

And so I'm always looking for ways to underline that, the w underline when a child has acted in that way.

Right.

Yes.

Um, yeah, you know, it's interesting because there are numbers of reviews on um all of my books that talk about kids being angry at the start and then quickly getting pulled into the book.

I really make an an effort in all of my books to completely normalize whatever the topic is, whatever it is that a child is struggling with.

and trying to use some humor and just helping kids not feel ashamed of whatever's going on with them.

Um, I think for kids that are really hugely resistant or I and that often comes from being scared.

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