How Might You Be Causing Your Daughter's Anxiety?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> <strong><u><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Show Notes</span></u></strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Listen in and learn some ways that parents may be contributing to or causing their daughter’s anxiety.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ways that parents cause anxiety in their children:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kids reflect the adults around them: kids may mirror their parent’s anxieties and worries. This is especially true for parents who have an untreated anxiety disorder</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kids may respond to traumatic experiences like child abuse or parent’s fighting or domestic violence by becoming anxious. These kinds of experiences may cause their amygdala to be overly sensitive to experiences that then more easily trigger anxiety.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The concept of</span> <a href= "https://drtimjordan.com/2022/03/parents-overprotective-children-resilience-infertility-addictions-emotions/"> <strong><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ghosts in the nursery and the vulnerable child syndrome</span></strong></a> <span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">was the topic of an old podcast of mine on 3-24-22, so review that for more info on this phenomenon.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Being overly cautious and constantly warning kids about potential dangers</span></p> <p clas