When the world feels like a scary place : essential conversations for anxious parents & worried kids

Summary: Dr. Abigail Gewirtz, a child psychologist and leading expert on families under stress, offers a clear and truly practical guide to having the kind of tough conversations with your kids that really help. But it's not just how to talk to your kids, it's also what to say. She shows how to let the child lead. How to not make the problem worse by saying more than a child needs to know. How to check in with yourself to make sure your own anxiety doesn't colour the conversation.

Record details

ISBN: 9781523508310 (paperback)
Physical Description: viii, 296 pages ; 22 cm
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Publisher: New York : Workman Publishing, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Trampolines -- The age of anxiety. Parents matter now more than ever ; What back news does to (us) parents ; Nature, nurture, and the parent-child dance -- Understanding emotions. Teaching children about emotions ; Help kids respond to big emotions ; Coaching emotions -- Essential conversations. How do I talk with my child? Conversations about violence ; Conversations about natural disasters and climate change ; Conversations about the perils of technology ; Conversations about social justice ; Conversations about our divided society -- "Take ten" to help children grow into confident, compassionate, and civil adults -- Bonus conversations. Feeling scared during the COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic ; When a parent deploys.