When a child is struggling with fears, worries, doubts and disappointments, parents are the front line seeing the anguish and in a unique position to wrestle them free. Families can get locked in to their children’s symptoms when they don’t know there’s another way. When parent’s efforts to help backfire or are ineffective, they need advice that works.
The Freeing Your Child series offers powerful, practical strategies for parents of children with anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and negative thinking. By cracking the code and taking the mystery out of confusing and distressing symptoms, parents will become experts in how anxiety and related conditions work.
Building on the same practical, compassionate strategies, Dr. Chansky’s new book, Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens expands the map of emotional experiences kids have to include anger, sadness, loneliness, grief, trauma. Parents will feel prepared to help their kids become emotionally equipped to navigate and grow forward wherever they land in life.
Through all her books, Dr Chansky provides compassionate, streamlined and effective scripts and strategies to help parents understand their children’s inner life. By seeing how their children’s maladaptive perceptions get built and reinforced, and how to unpack and interpret them more accurately and adaptively, parents will feel prepared for what they want to do most: teach their children new ways to view their thoughts and feelings so they can take charge of their life. By learning how to identify the tricks the mind can play, the places kids can get snagged and feel stuck, children can choose to not go with their mind’s first reaction, and can instead develop the habit of reaching for a second more accurate reaction. When children have a roadmap to freedom there is no stopping them. Here’s a map to your child’s healthy, happy and satisfying life.
We all know what’s healthy to think and what’s not, much as we know that reaching for the apple is going to be serve us far better than gorging on donuts. But it’s not so simple in the mind. Once we start on an anxious or negative track with our thinking, we don’t know how to get from the disaster in our heads back to the reality in our lives.
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