How to help your child cope with Anxiety?

Teach your child the thermometer. Once they get from the green, to yellow, to red. It is too late to talk to them when they are at the red. Try to catch the at the Green or Yellow when they can still communicate. Click here to see an example. Depending on the age of the child choose a simpler one for younger children.

Parents are always teahing their child how to respond to anxiety and stress. THink for a moment...How do you handle stress? or anxiety? A growing body of research has highlighted the importance of child mental health for optimal social and academic functioning. International studies show that mental health problems tend to appear early among elementary and junior high school students and can impede self-confidence, social interactions, and cognitive ability. (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph Mental Health is a universal epedemic. This is why Early Childhood is so important. Let's prevent these mental problems with a set of tools that help children becuase we know they will inevitablly come up against the fork in the road to be anxious/ depressed or use a skill they know can help them. I am a firm believer in prevention before, before, the problem not just at the fork. Start at the handle. For instance, with teen pregnancy in the 80's a study led them to start teaching about teen pregnancy in the 80's to teens. It's too late by then. Same goes for the diliquents. It starts at the handle, early childhood and teaching the parents. Things to remember when your child experiences ANXIETY according to DR. Dawn Huebner is... Anxiety is there to protect us. Teach the child to look at their absolute surrounding them. Look around your self. Examine each body part. Start at your head.

Is your head on? Are your arms on? Fingers attached? Elbows bend? Heart beating? Hips wiggle? Then give a giggle. Are your legs straight, are they bent. Do you have a snake in your boot? Good. You are doing Okay!

Parent can discuss a time they felt anxiety. Or as a parent is driving they can self talk through the axniety for the child. (be causious not to cause anxiety.) Make it less than <5 second.

Whoa, that car made me worry for a second, then I realized that I can slow down, or stay away from them.

Anxiety is a fear and one of the most universal feelings. Most emotions researchers agree on these five Universal Emotions: emotions that all humans, no matter where or how we were raised, have in common. The movement of the shapes reflects the fluid nature of emotions – the way their strength and frequency varies from moment to moment. Check out this Emotion Atlas that shows the 5 universal emotions and what causes them and what responses are to that emotion. Click here. The Dalai Lama imagined "a map of our emotions to develop a calm mind." He asked his longtime friend and renowned emotion scientist Dr. Paul Ekman to realize his idea. Ekman took on the creation of the Atlas alongside his daughter, Eve Ekman, a second-generation emotion researcher and trainer. The Atlas represents what researchers have learned from the psychological study of emotion.

The Dalai Lama imagined "a map of our emotions to develop a calm mind." He asked his longtime friend and renowned emotion scientist Dr. Paul Ekman to realize his idea. Ekman took on the creation of the Atlas alongside his daughter, Eve Ekman, a second-generation emotion researcher and trainer. The Atlas represents what researchers have learned from the psychological study of emotion.