by DrBridgetWalker | Aug 22, 2012 | Anxiety, Behavior, Children
What if my teacher doesn’t like me? What if I don’t feel well and you are not there to help me? What if the other kids think I’m not as smart as they are? What if I can’t do long division? Can’t I just stay home? Every fall, millions of American children...
by DrBridgetWalker | Nov 11, 2011 | Anxiety, Behavior, Resources
Check out Shirley S. Wang’s article, Tantrum Tamer: New Ways Parents Can Stop Bad Behavior in 11/08/11 Wall Street Journal View Article Here Ms. Wang reports about findings at Yale University and King’s College, London indicating that the ways in...
by DrBridgetWalker | Oct 24, 2011 | Anxiety, Behavior, Children
Tolerating the distress that an anxious child experiences when his fears are triggered can be challenging. Some parents have particularly low levels of tolerance for the distress of their anxious child and jump in to remedy any distress by any means they can....
by DrBridgetWalker | Jun 7, 2011 | Anxiety, Behavior, Children
Dr. Harold Koplewitcz indeed does seem to be the kind of informed advocate that our children need. Mental illness is a fact of life and very frequently has nothing to do with bad parenting or traumatic experiences, but rather with genetic predispositions....
by DrBridgetWalker | Mar 16, 2011 | Anxiety, Behavior, Children
Aid and Abet your child’s attempts to avoid the situation that triggers his fears. What does this mean? It means that you help your child avoid fearful situations and or that you actually encourage avoidance as a strategy to manage your child’s distress. There...
by DrBridgetWalker | Mar 4, 2011 | Behavior, Children
My previous blog entry focused on the “most important” advice I have for a parent of an anxious child: determine how you are unintentionally reinforcing your child’s fears, and stop doing that. I thought it might be useful to readers if I...