Growing Up Brave

Expert Strategies for Helping Your Child Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety

by Donna B. Pincus

Number of pages: 288

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

BBB Library: Parenting, Psychology and Strengths

ISBN: 978-0316125604



About the Author

Dr. Donna Pincus is an Associate Professor at Boston University and Director of the Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders in Boston. She has focused her clinical research career on the development of new treatments for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and their families, with a particular focus on understudied and highly impaired populations of youth. She has also investigated the role parents and families play in developing, maintaining, and preventing' childhood disorders.

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Editorial Review

Growing Up Brave helps parents identify and understand anxiety in their children, outlines effective and convenient parenting techniques for reducing anxiety, and shows parents how to promote bravery for long-term confidence. From trouble sleeping and separation anxiety to social anxiety or panic attacks, Growing Up Brave provides an essential toolkit for instilling happiness and confidence for childhood and beyond. In Growing Up Brave, we want to share with you this good and hopeful message: ·       Children with extreme anxiety or anxiety disorders can get better. ·       We are learning more all the time about what helps a child get better. ·       Parents—not therapy, not prescription medications—can be the key ingredient in how successfully a child or adolescent begins to approach the world with greater joy and confidence.

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“The author describes exciting new techniques for dealing with anxiety. She provides anecdotal evidence from her clinical experience and supportive research showing that simple interventions by parents (with or without guidance from a therapist) can be effective within an extremely short time frame. Her hopeful message to parents is thatthey, “not therapy, not prescription medications—can be the key ingredients in how successfully a child or adolescent begins to approach the world with greater joy and confidence.”

“I wish I had this book when my kids were younger! This book not only containsgreat explanations and examples, but it actually teaches strategies and applications.However, I am glad to have it now as there are also teen strategies! It’s never too late!I highly recommend this to all parents, grandparents, teachers, etc,Jen Bury”

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Wisdom to Share

If we can change the way we think, we can also sometimes change the way we feel and the way we act.

A brave child navigates tough situations, even if he worries that every other kid he knows seems to have no problem with them.

Ninety percent of all children, ages 2 to 14, tell us they have at least one fear; many report more than one.

Children of all ages may display specific phobias, or intense and irrational fears, of particular objects or situations.

The challenge–and it is a tough one–is to recognize the difference between being an attentive parent and being a too-vigilant, “too much” parent.

Parents who tend to have an explosive style—quick to anger—almost always regret the outbursts that seem to linger in the atmosphere.

At different stages, your child is afraid of something that, if not controlled, might affect his survival, or in other words, might cause him to be hurt.

The toddler shrinks back when he sees a spider, not knowing whether or not this creature poses a danger.

The first step in helping your child get control of his emotions is to deal with yours, by appreciating the role of anxiety in life.

Yes, attentive parenting means not being overly controlling, and taking a step back, and letting kids make their own decisions. But occasionally a child might need that extra push.