
Welcome to How to Talk to the Anxious Child! It's great to have you here. My name is Ali and I will be delivering the course today. I am the Founder of FizzyKids and have two kids with special needs.
Here's a bit more about what you will hopefully feel you have achieved by the end of the course.
Understanding more about the course.
An overview of the course structure and content.
A case study of an anxious child.
Exercise.
Understanding why kids get anxious
Understanding what anxious behaviours can look like.
Understanding the anxious child's brain.
Exercise - recognising triggers for your child's anxiety.
The power of listening to an anxious child.
What parents of anxious kids can learn from hostage negotiators!
Noticing the language you use with your anxious child. Core scripts - what are they and what effect can they have?
Exercise - what are your core scripts with your child when they're anxious? Are they effective?
There are 3 key concepts to help you understand how to talk differently to your anxious child.
What makes you feel better when you're anxious?
What different phrases can we use when talking to our anxious kids?
5 new phrases to coach a child through anxiety.
5 new phrases to coach a child through anxiety.
5 new phrases to coach a child through anxiety.
5 new phrases to coach a child through anxiety.
5 new phrases to coach a child through anxiety.
5 new phrases to help an anxious child get through their day.
5 new phrases to help an anxious child get through their day.
5 new phrases to help an anxious child get through their day.
5 new phrases to help an anxious child get through their day.
5 new phrases to help an anxious child get through their day.
3 new phrases to help in an emergency.
3 new phrases to help in an emergency.
3 new phrases to help in an emergency.
2 new phrases when talking to others about your anxious child.
2 new phrases when talking to others about your anxious child.
Tools & techniques.
Wrap-up.
In this course, you will learn more about the reasons why children can feel anxious and how the grown-ups around them can help a child with their anxiety by learning a new way of talking to and interacting with their kids.
The course is structured as follows:
- Introduction - finding out more about the trainer and the outcomes of the course
- Section 1 - Understanding what makes our kids anxious
- Section 2 - Understanding more about what anxious behaviours look like and how they anxious brain is working
- Section 3 - Learning new phrases to use with your anxious child in multiple situations
- Section 4 - Learning new tools and techniques when interacting with your anxious child
- Section 5 - wrap-up
This course is part of several courses that look at the impact that our words and body language can have on our kids, particularly when parenting kids with additional needs. The first course looks at the impact of our words and actions on our kids when they are struggling with challenging behaviours. The second course focuses primarily on how to talk to the angry child. This course can be completed standalone or part of a series.
After the course, you should feel more confident at understanding what lies behind your child's anxiety and how to deal with it in a different way. We can't always stop our children feeling anxious, but we can help them to learn to manage it and deal with it in order to make them more resilient in the future.