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[quote=Anonymous]my four year old has anxiety.  Child Find is not the right program for this.  I saw a Child Psychologist who specializes in childhood anxiety.  She saw me, the mom,  and not my son.  She said at that age it is more helpful to meet with parents and give them tips and strategies vs. meeting with the child.  She gave me a lot of great advice and I also read some helpful books.  My kid's anxiety changes in form all the time, but he is generally a very anxious kid.  The older he gets the better he gets since now he can understand more and we can talk through things.  It's still tough though and there are days when he drives me bananas.  Some strategies that have helped us are using a timer for certain things so he knows when a change is coming.  He does yoga for preschoolers and then we work on the "bumblebee breath."  We do a "three breath hug" now and then to calm him down.    We have done simple reward charts and he would get stickers for things like "I was able to keep calm."   When he's on the verge of freaking I would say " let's take some deep breaths and try to "keep calm" and then he would get a sticker on his chart.  He felt really proud of himself afterwards.  At night time we had our routine and I put several night lights in his room which helped.  The dream lite helped too.  Planning ahead has helped a lot too.  Maybe say something like "mommy has to go to the doctor tomorrow."  explain why you have to go and how it's good to go the doctor.  maybe read a book about it.

Honestly i think a lot of it will get better with time.  I can see my son is much better now, but he's still a very anxious kid compared to his peers.  Sometimes we talk about his "silly brain" when he gets really upset about something or can't stop doing a behavior.  The psychologist suggested this idea to me, but it didn't really start working until a couple months ago because he didn't understand before.

HTH[/quote]

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