As we emerge from lockdown, some children are feeling out of practise in their social skills.
Karen Sleeman shares ways to help children who are finding social interaction hard.
Social anxiety in children
Tag: Anxiety and fear
Hope in an Anxious World
Helen Thorne’s latest book, Hope in an Anxious World, has just been published. We asked her to tell us about it.
Parenting fearful children
Children are unusually prone to fear. At one level, our children’s fearfulness makes sense - being small is scary. But what if things are not quite as they seem? What if some childhood fear is driven not by feeling too small, but by feeling too big?
Health anxiety
When children are anxious
Many children in the UK are anxious. No-one’s life is normal at present. Bad things do happen, hard things are real, and life doesn’t always turn out the way we hope it will.
Karen Sleeman suggests some ways that we can nurture growth in fearful children.