Health and Wellbeing
Help Anxious Children Feel Calm & in Control
Find out why shielding your child from what scares them can make anxiety grow, and what helps them feel in control instead.
- 38 minutes
- 9 modules
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Explain anxiety to your child in a way that makes it less frightening
- Find what's triggering the worry by walking through the day together
- Stay calm on the outside, even when you're anxious too
- Build 'I Can' cycles of tiny successes that grow your child's confidence
- Use mini-resets to stop worry building up through the day
About this course
It's natural to want to rescue a frightened child: let them skip the party, stay home, avoid the thing that sets them off. It works for a day. But each escape tells their brain the danger was real, and the worry grows.
There's a harder, kinder way, and it starts with understanding. You'll explain to your child why their tummy churns and their heart races, and find what triggers the worry by walking through a normal day together. You'll learn to keep your voice slow, low and steady when theirs isn't, because children pick up calm from the adults around them. And you'll build 'I Can' cycles, tiny wins so small they're almost impossible to fail, which slowly add up to confidence.
There's help with everyday life too, from mini-resets that stop worry building through the day to holding on to progress over the summer holidays.
9 modules
Open in order
- 1 min
Introduction
- 3 min
Wrap Up & Resources
- 5 min
Why do we get anxious and how does it feel?
- 6 min
Understanding triggers
- 5 min
Breaking the anxiety cycle
- 7 min
It starts with you…
1 question
- 5 min
Using ‘I Can’ cycles to take back control
1 question
- 4 min
Celebrate Success and Maintain Gains
1 question
- 7 min
Living with it – tips and tricks for every day