Hi parents!
Below are some links and downloads that can help you if your child is struggling with anxiety right now. Let me start by saying--anxiety doesn't always look like anxiety. It can look like anger. It can be restlessness. It can even be hyperactivity.
The following resources were provided to us through the children's ministry publisher Orange.
Preschool Anxiety Guide
Elementary Anxiety Guide
This blog post is also from Orange and gives a succinct step-by-step guide to helping your kiddos process what's going on specifically with Covid-19.
The website Raising Girls and Boys is a wealth of resource for children's mental health. Children's counselor and author Sissy Goff has been recording podcasts, writing Instagram posts, and getting helpful content out into the world any which way she can since the quarantine began. Search her name in whatever podcast platform you use to find podcasts where she's been a guest. Follow her in IG for some daily advice and inspiration. And browse this site!
And last but not least, here is a whole collection of Scripture to help us all as we live through this experience. Here's one I'm holding onto today: Cast all your cares [anxiety] upon Him because He cares for you.--1 Peter 5:7
If I find additional resources that are particularly helpful along these lines, I'll be sure to share them. And if YOU have a resource, please share it in the comments.
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