Kathleen’s Reviews > Raising Worry-Free Girls: Helping Your Daughter Feel Braver, Stronger, and Smarter in an Anxious World | Parenting Guide | Help Your Girl Overcome Anxiety & Improve Mental Health > Status Update

Your daughter will experience trouble in this world. You cannot shield her from it. But we can help shape her expectations. And we can trade the world’s expectations for HOPE rooted in Christ.

Chapter on helping her heart — so many good ideas we can implement. Specifically: the bravery jar. I need to be more consistent and our schedule can be more flexible.

Ch 4 & 5 give tools for your daughter and tools for you as the parent to help battle the worry monster — specifically her body and then her mind. So many suggestions & I’ve already begun implementing them. Easy and applicable and effective.

Why Her? Chapter — explains how we as parents respond to our daughter’s anxiety can either empower and encourage her to try things despite her fears or we can step in and take over and make her anxiety worse. She can feel like she needs us to support her in order for her to have success. Or it is too hard and scary — her fears were right.

The first chapter explains the differences between fear, worry, and anxiety — and points out what is a more natural, developmental fear vs something stronger that needs more help to end the cycle. (I love the one page summaries at the end of the chapters for quick review.)