Worry Warriors:Help Kids Cope with Anxiety

Anxiety can be a very normal thing, and most of us (including kids) will experience worries from time to time.  If you are wondering when you should worry about your kid's worries, though, check out the following resource which provides you with the Red Flags of Worry. 

Worry Warriors

Help your child be a Worry Warrior. For our purposes, this means that he will face his fears head on. As you have likely heard, bravery is not the absence of fear.  It is feeling the fear and doing it anyways.  When kids can face their worries and process them with a caring adult, they are one step closer to emotional freedom!

How You Can Help Your Child

If your child's worries are minimal and common, you can help him cope in many ways.  Below, we have gathered some great ways from some skilled folks, to help kids process and cope with worries. 

1. Worry Activities from Kim's Counseling Corner 

(Includes 2 Activities)

2. Worry Dolls by Dr Play Mom

3. Worry Stones by Creative Elementary School Counselor

4. Anxiety can show up as anger. 

Anxious kids may be irritable, and at times,

have outbursts.  Our very own resource,

"Ice Cream Cones and Frozen Pops:

Cool Ways to Help Kids Chill Their Anger"

can help with that!

5. Outsmart Your Worry Toolkit: Ages 5-11

(This is an AWESOME way to combat worry. Kids have loved this!)

6. Outsmart Your Worry: Teens

(Teens Have LOVED this and found it very helpful!)

7. Worry Shields by Fairy Dust Teaching

8. Pocket Hearts - Worries by Curly Birds

9.  Worry Dolls from Guatemala

(In case you need to ship some to a niece or grandchild)

10. Worry Cards by Autism Teaching Strategies

(32 Cards)

11.  Deep Breathing by Kim's Counseling Corner

12.  Books That Help Kids Deal with Anxiety by Kidlutions

(More than 20 Book Suggestions)

13. Calm Down and Relax by Creative Playhouse

(Featuring 15 Activities)

14.  What to Do When You Worry Too Much

(Love this workbook!)

15. Our very own Fun with Feelings Workbook helps kids deal
with all sorts of feelings. (Instant Download) It can be used in
classrooms, with scouting groups, childcare facilities and more!

16. Sea Otter Cove: A Relaxation Story by my friend, Lori Lite, 

at Stress Free Kids.

We hope those provide a good starting point for helping your kids cope with worries.  If anxiety and worries continue and impact your child's ability to sleep, go to school, engage with peers in an age-appropriate manner, or affect him in any other way, we urge you to seek professional help.  The sooner a problem is dealt with, the sooner your child can get on with the business of being a kid!

17. See our whole collection of suggested books to help with anxiety here:

Click Here  to see books we recommend!

How do you help your child deal with worries? 

We'd love to hear about it in the comments below!

As always, from Kidlutions, we wish you Happy Parenting {and Teaching}!  If you have an extra minute, be sure to come play with us on facebook and Pinterest!

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