Anxiety
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What to Do if a Child Refuses to Go to Daycare (US)
A child who clings to the doorframe in their pajamas, screams "no daycare!" and goes limp when you try to put on shoes can rattle even an experienced...
What to Do if a Child Refuses to Go to Daycare (UK)
A child who clings to the doorframe in their pajamas, screams "no daycare!" and goes limp when you try to put on shoes can rattle even an experienced...
What to Do if a Child Refuses to Go to Daycare (Global)
A child who clings to the doorframe in their pajamas, screams "no daycare!" and goes limp when you try to put on shoes can rattle even an experienced...
Adapting to Daycare: What Children Experience and How Parents Can Help (US)
Starting daycare is one of the bigger transitions of the first three years, and the bit parents most often miss is what it actually feels like from th...
Adapting to Daycare: What Children Experience and How Parents Can Help (UK)
Starting nursery is one of the bigger transitions of the first three years, and the bit parents most often miss is what it actually feels like from th...
Adapting to Daycare: What Children Experience and How Parents Can Help (Global)
Starting daycare is one of the bigger transitions of the first three years, and the bit parents most often miss is what it actually feels like from th...
Postnatal Anxiety: How It Differs from Postnatal Depression and How to Get Help
New parenthood and anxiety seem almost synonymous. Every parent worries about their newborn. But there is a distinction between the universal worry of...
When Control Increases Anxiety
Many anxious parents believe that more control will reduce their anxiety. If they can just prevent all problems, control all variables, and ensure the...
Why To-Do Lists Can Increase Stress
There's a moment most parents have lived through with a to-do list: you make it on Sunday, you cross off two things by Wednesday, and by Friday it has...
Social Media's Effect on Parenting Confidence
There is a specific kind of self-doubt that did not exist for parents in 2005: the feeling, at 9pm with your phone in your hand, that everyone else ha...
Comparison Culture and Parenting Anxiety
Your child isn't talking as much as the neighbor's toddler. Another parent seems infinitely patient while you lose it. Someone else's preschooler is r...
How Financial Stress Affects Children Without Their Knowledge
Children don't need to know what an overdraft is to feel its weight on the household. They don't need to understand interest rates to absorb the textu...
When Anxiety Requires Professional Attention
The difficulty in knowing when to seek professional assessment for a young child's anxiety is that most anxiety in this age group is developmentally n...
Children's Emotional Responses to Changes in Environment
Your toddler's world runs on patterns. The crib, the corner of the rug she sits on, the shape of the morning, the order of the bath. When a big piece...
How the Home Environment Shapes Child Anxiety
"They were too young to understand" is one of the more common things parents say after an argument in front of a baby. The research is unambiguous on...
What Causes Increased Anxiety in Toddlers
Two children growing up in similar households can have very different anxiety levels — and most of the time the explanation is a mix of genetics and w...
How to Transition Your Child to a New Daycare
You're moving your child to a new daycare — because you moved, because the old one closed, because something wasn't working, or because they aged into...
How to Reduce a Child's Anxiety Before Starting Daycare
Worry about starting daycare is normal. The whole thing is genuinely new — different building, different smell, different adults, a long stretch witho...
Can Daycare Affect a Child's Emotional Security?
A child's emotional security is built from many small, repeated experiences of being noticed, understood, and helped. Daycare, by definition, hands a...
What to Do if a Child Refuses to Go to Daycare
A child who clings to the doorframe in their pajamas, screams "no daycare!" and goes limp when you try to put on shoes can rattle even an experienced...
When to Leave Your Child With a Babysitter for the First Time
The first time you leave your child with a babysitter is more often the parents' anxiety than the child's. By six in the evening you are watching your...
The Transition to Secondary School: What to Expect and How to Help
Starting secondary school is a different kind of change to anything that has come before. Primary school added one teacher, one classroom, and a slowl...
Talking to Teenagers About Mental Health
The statistics on adolescent mental health in the UK are sobering. 1 in 5 young people aged 8-25 had a probable mental health disorder in 2023, compar...
Social Media and Children's Mental Health: What the Evidence Shows
Social media and adolescent mental health has become one of the most contested empirical questions of the decade. The public narrative -- that smartph...