When your child is anxious, it's easy to get anxious too. You want to help your child regain a sense of peace and safety, but how can you? This world is big and scary, and sometimes our worries get big too.
Julie Lowe, a skilled family counselor with more than twenty years of experience, guides parents in assessing their child's anxiety and gives practical ways to encourage and help worried children.
She leads parents away from quick fixes that contribute to dependencies and points them to Christ, the One who is always available, loving, and powerful.
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Highly recommend if your child struggles with anxiety. Great first steps for parents to take in order to help reassure their child that God is with you, for you and has a loving plan for you instead of the false reassurance that “everything will be ok”.
How does a parent and an adult minister to an anxious child? This book was helpful and edifying. It is a part of the “minibook” series published by New Growth Press and authored by various counselors from the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation. The author Julie Lowe is a faculty in the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation has written articles and other resources on biblical counseling concerning ministering to children and parenting. This particular book is an excellent resource for Biblical and Pastoral Counselors to give parents who are burdened to minister to their worrying child. The introduction up with nuances to not every child’s personality is different but nevertheless we should evaluate how serious a child’s worries are from the diagnostic question of how much have their fear and anxiety hinder their day to day life. I appreciate the author talking about the wrong ways a child can cope with fear in ways that are not healthy or worst, causes more problems. I thought about how even as adults we can do the same thing too but in complex forms; this shows how important it is to shepherd a child through their worries and anxieties. While she didn’t use the term “security blanket” we got to watch out for “security blanket” responses to fears. After the introduction there’s a section on “Parental comfort versus God’s comfort” followed by “Giving Hope: What Message Do they hear?” and it ends with thirteen truths from Scripture to Comfort Your Anxious Child.” This was immensely edifying. It was also helpful as a parent to read this. I think one shouldn’t judge this booklet based upon its size: It definitely was powerful with the economy of words and pages it was limited to. Maybe that’s something we can also learn from biblical counseling booklets like this work. I recommend this.