Moms – Jessica Tucker
Anxiety in children occurs for any number of reasons. According to KidsHealth, it can be genetics, brain chemistry, life situations, or learned behaviors from same-sex parents that bring about anxiety. What they all have in common is that kids feel the desire to be able to control everything that happens in their lives. Something that is impossible to do. And when that ability to have control is lost, the anxiety levels that kids experience can be mild to debilitating. This is why having conversations with anxious children to understand what they can control and what they cannot control may help to keep anxiety levels from rising to the point of not being able to function and begin to self-regulate their anxiety instead.
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