Now visualize your child in a small hole in the ground, with that hole representing the anxiety. Your child is in that discomfort. We want our children to feel like we are jumping into the hole with them, keeping them company—not trying to pull them out of it. When we jump into the hole with our kid, two powerful things happen: our child no longer feels alone and we show our child that this thing that feels so awful to them doesn’t feel so awful to us, because we are willing to join them.
