Help Your Child With Anxiety Toolkit
$49.00
Separation anxiety... Test anxiety... Fear of bees.... Refusing to try new things... Panic Attacks. Anxiety can manifest in many different ways. When is it normal and age appropriate, and when is it a problem? What can you do to support your child?
The goal isn't to raise a child who doesn't get anxious--which would be impossible! The goal is to raise a child who has experienced the discomfort of feeling uncertain and somewhat worried--but who knows that those feelings are completely normal, and that whatever happens, he or she can handle it. The goal is to help your child develop the inner resources--and to teach them how to find the external resources--that will enable them to face, and to manage, whatever life throws at them.
This self-paced Parenting Toolkit gives you two audios (with transcripts) and three printables that guide you through the steps to teach your child (and yourself!) how to manage anxiety.
Ready to begin? This comprehensive self-paced Toolkit gives you everything you need to create lasting change!
Your Complete Toolkit includes:
- Audio with Transcript Understanding Anxiety
- Audio with Transcript Helping Your Child with Anxiety
- Printable 50 Ways To Calm Your Nervous System
- Printable Retraining Your Worry Monster (Use with your child!)
- Printable Coaching Words for Courage
My 9-year-old was having meltdowns every day before school, and I knew it was anxiety but felt helpless watching her struggle. The Help Your Child With Anxiety Toolkit gave us practical strategies that actually worked for us. Within three weeks, our mornings went from tears to (most of the time) confidence. This Toolkit didn't just help my child—it empowered our entire family with a common language to talk about feelings and practical tools to manage them.
- Jennifer M., mother of two
“My little one has a very anxious personality. School drop-offs and new situations are especially hard for her, and for a long time I didn’t know how to help. This toolkit gave me tools I can share with her so she has support even when I’m not there. The two audios are fantastic, and I feel more hopeful that this information will help us support her in a calmer, more confident way.”
- Suzume O.
Ready to create the peaceful home you've always wanted?
Anxiety is part of being human.
The goal isn’t to eliminate it — it’s to help your child learn that anxious feelings are uncomfortable, but not dangerous. With your calm guidance, your child learns that worry can be understood, soothed, and managed.
As you move through this toolkit, you’ll be strengthening your child’s inner voice — the one that says, “I can handle this.” And at the same time, you’ll be strengthening your own.
You don’t have to do this perfectly. You just have to keep showing up with empathy, steadiness, and a willingness to learn alongside your child. That’s how resilience grows — one calm moment at a time.
STEP ONE
Audio: Understanding Anxiety
Let's begin by understanding what anxiety is, how it manifests in the mind and body, and how you and your child can grow a calmer nervous system.
In this 32 minute audio, you'll learn:
- What exactly IS anxiety?
- How to notice the feedback loop between the mind and body, that gets activated when we're anxious.
- How we can use that feedback loop to calm ourselves down.
- How to train the mind and body to become less anxious over time.
Download the Transcript for this audio if you want to follow along.
STEP TWO
Printable: 50 Ways To Calm Your Nervous System
50 Ways To Calm Your Nervous System is a list of strategies to calm down when you get upset or worried, and it works for kids and parents! Post this list in your home and consciously demonstrate for your child how well these strategies work for self management in the face of anxious moments. Over time, you will see your child begin to use these strategies as well.
You might think the suggestions on 50 Ways To Calm Your Nervous System are too quick and simple to be effective. But they have all been shown by research to calm the nervous system when it is dysregulated. Even better, most of the things you do to calm your body in the moment also work to help your nervous system learn to calm down more quickly in the future. That's the job of your vagus nerve, which sends messages throughout the body to help you calm down once it feels safe.
So over time as you use this list, you retrain your vagus nerve to be able to return you to calm more quickly.
You're human, so you won't be able to stay calm at all times. But being able to notice when you get upset, and return yourself to calm quickly, is transformational. And you're modeling for your child, so you're giving them strategies to build a calmer nervous system starting in childhood!
STEP THREE
Audio: Helping Your Child with Anxiety
The audio Helping Your Child with Anxiety gives you tips for how to talk with your child about anxiety, and what to say to help your child learn to manage anxious feelings. In this 39 minute audio, you'll learn:
- How to talk with your child about anxiety.
- How to support your child when they're feeling anxious.
- How to teach your child skills to manage their worries.
Download the Transcript for this audio if you want to follow along.
STEP FOUR
Printable: Retraining Your Worry Monster
Use this fun printable to talk with your child about how we can all learn to handle our worries in ways that make us happier! Teach your child the NED strategy and work together to brainstorm skills and strategies to calm their body and retrain their Worry Monster.
STEP FIVE
Printable: Coaching Words for Courage
Your child may say things like:
- "I can't do it!"
- "I'm not good at this!"
- "I never do it right!"
When our children doubt themselves, we often feel helpless and don't know what to say. So to wrap up our mini-course on anxiety, we have a printable to help you coach your child when they feel worried, anxious or afraid. This printable gives you the words to say to build confidence, resilience and courage. Since your voice will become your child's inner voice, using these phrases regularly will give your child the words to help themself through tough moments for the rest of their life.
This Toolkit Is For You If:
- Your child struggles with separation anxiety, test anxiety, fear of new situations, or worry that feels bigger than what's "normal" for their age
- You feel helpless watching your child suffer — and you're not sure whether to push them through their fears or protect them from discomfort
- You tend to reassure your child repeatedly, but it doesn't seem to be making the anxiety go away
- Your child's anxiety is starting to affect their daily life — school mornings, social situations, or trying new things
- You want to build your child's confidence from the inside out, so they grow up knowing they can handle whatever comes their way
Changes You'll Begin to See:
- You'll know exactly how to talk with your child about anxiety in a way that validates their feelings without feeding the fear
- Your child will start to develop their own toolkit of calming strategies — and reach for them when worry shows up
- Anxious episodes will become less frequent and easier to move through, for both you and your child
- You'll feel steadier and less reactive in the moments your child is struggling — because you'll know what to do
- Your child will gradually build a quiet inner belief that they can handle anxious feelings
My child’s anxiety used to look like stomachaches, tears, and panic before school. I felt anxious too, because I didn’t know how to help him. This toolkit helped me see that anxiety is something to support, not eliminate. The language and tools gave me words to say and a way to stay calm myself. My child still feels nervous sometimes, but it happens less often now, and the episodes are much easier to calm.
- Leslie M.
Science-Based Parenting You Can Trust
Dr. Laura Markham trained as a clinical psychologist at Columbia University — and she’s also a mom who understands how hard parenting can be in the real world. She translates neuroscience and child development research into practical guidance parents can use in the heat of the moment — staying calm, building deep connection, and setting loving limits that kids actually respect.
She is the author of three bestselling books with more than 300,000 copies sold in English and editions published in over 27 languages worldwide. Over 115,000 families receive her weekly guidance. She's known for combining solid science with real-life warmth, to help families reduce conflict, strengthen relationships, and raise emotionally intelligent, resilient children.
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