Some of the most loving responses offered by parents to their children, such as rescuing, reassuring, avoiding, can quietly grow anxiety. In Feeling anxious, doing brave: what helps, what backfires, and what quietly makes it worse听parenting expert Karen Young explains responses that are more helpful: gentle leadership, steady support and small, repeated steps that teach your child鈥檚 brain, 鈥淚 can do this.鈥
Feeling anxious, doing brave: what helps, what backfires, and what quietly makes it worse