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13 helpful phrases you can say to calm an anxious child

“i am here; you are safe” anxiety has a way of making things look worse and feel scarier than when we are not feeling worried. these words can offer comfort and safety when your child feeling out of control, especially if they are at the height of their worry.

“tell me about it” give your child room to talk about their fears without interrupting. some children need to have time to process through their thoughts.

“how big is your worry?” help your child verbalize the size of their worry and give you an accurate picture of how it feels to them.

“what do you want to tell your worry?” give your child room to talk about their fears without interrupting. some children need to have time to process through their thoughts.

“can you draw it?” many kids cannot express their emotions with words. encourage them to draw, paint or create their worries on paper.

“let’s change the ending.” anxious children often feel stuck in the same pattern without a way out. help them see different options by telling their story, but leaving off the ending.

“what other things do you know about (fill in the blank)?” some children feel empowered when they have more information about their fear (especially things like tornadoes, bees, elevators, etc).

“which calming strategy do you want to use?” work proactively to create a long list of calming strategies your child enjoys. practice them during the day, at random times when you child feels calm.

“i’m going to take a deep breath.” sometimes our children are so worried they resist our encouragement to pick a calming strategy. in this case, use yourself as the calming skill! verbalize what you are doing and how it makes you feel.

“it’s scary and…” acknowledge your child’s fear without making it even more frightening by using the word “AND.” after the word “and” you can add phrases like, “you are safe” or “you’ve conquered this fear before” or “you have a plan.”

“i can’t wait to hear about…” it’s hard to see our kids suffer with worry. many parents rush in to rescue their child from an anxiety-producing situation.

“what do you need from me?” instead of assuming that you know what your child needs, give them an opportunity to tell you what would help.

“this feeling will pass.” this may be a phrase you can both use when your child is at the height of panic. all feelings pass eventually. it often feels like they will never end, you won’t make it through, or it’s too hard. and that’s okay. don’t let your brain get stuck in that moment; focus on the relief that is on the horizon.

source: this infographic was created based on a wonderful article written by nicole schwawrz found at limeadventures.com. nicole’s blog can be found at imperfectfamilies.com.

get tips and tools to alleviate childhood anxiety: www.gozen.com

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TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

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Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL

I work in the largest library system in my state (17 branches in total).

I use it not only for ebooks, but movies as well.

Other FREE resources to check with your library for are:

Freegal Music (download and keep music, including current music)

Hoopla Digital (borrow ebooks, e-audiobooks, e-graphic novels, stream movies)

Kanopy (stream movies; also available on Roku!)

Axis360 (usually hot or just released ebooks)

If you don’t have a library card…

GET ONE!

If someone says libraries are a thing of the past…

BOOP THEM IN THE NOSE WITH YOUR KINDLE!

Don’t discount libraries as “quiet” places. 

THEY ARE ALIVE!!!

THEY ARE LOUD!!!

- The guy whose computer screen you can see at the start is looking up “what to do if a dog has rabies”

- The unbroken wall of hydroflasks in front of the teacher’s podium

- Good Mythical Morning poster

- Inexplicable “NO TALKING DURING RAZOR LOVE” sign

- The guy next to the videographer just has the letters “WBOEOADRS” in giant font on his computer screen

- The teacher knowing to pause for booing after he mentione Ashe County Middle School

- The kid that yells “I hate them!” enthusiastically

- A sign that says “NO FREAKING” with a picture of two stick figures having sex

- Hand-painted “educasion is overated” poster

- The fact that the class knows to say “standing by” when he tells them to stand by

- The woman literally waiting outside the door to hand over the dog

- The tenderness with which he handles the dog before he announces its imminent demise

Mai and Ty Lee have the best dynamics :’)

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Also after googling her, I found out that she’s also designed Sylveon–another favorite PKMN of mine. She’s also illustrated some very pretty Pokemon cards!!

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