Beyond Separation Anxiety: A Strategy that Works
When focusing on feelings can go overboard and add more stress. Key points Respecting and validating feelings is critical when it come to helping kids with separation anxiety. But more is not always better, especially for deeply feeling kids who can stuck and ruminate. Talking about feelings all the time can increase distress and anxiety What they need is validation and also help moving on, not looping alongside them. A crying young girl holding an adult’s hand In this day and age of "gentle...