Breaking the Cycle of Anxiety in Children - Be the Calm "Second Chicken"

No matter how sensitive your child’s nervous system is and whether they are temperamentally and genetically predisposed to higher anxiety, the first line of attack in managing this anxiety should be controlling this child's environment by surrounding them with calm and relaxed second chickens, or gazelle, which will allow their autonomic nervous system to finally let the guard down.

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Parents need to be good gardeners...

“Parents need to be good gardeners… and what does the gardener do? They take seeds and they never say to the seed: “Listen, if you don’t grow in a way I want you to grow, I am going to throw you out.” They don’t do that. What they do is they take that initial seed and they say: “Now, I am going to find out what are the growing conditions of this… what is the light, fertilizer, temperature…,” and that is what I would like to see people do with children… Also waiting for the seed to sprout… Knowing it takes a while for a seed to sprout, for a seed to unfold itself, and in the meantime you go on trust.”

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