Child Anxiety

Apart from creativity, courage, and language development, it prepares the child for life. The world is very chaotic for children. Stories can accustom the child to a strange world. It can make an unsafe situation safe because it prepares us for a flight like flight simulation before we have an experience. The child who will start school is curious. We prepare the child for school with stories about the school, and the first day he goes to school is not his first day.

Brave Mee and the Variety Show of Anxiety follows Mee, a loveable and adorable child, on a visual adventure on an anxiety inducing game show. Mee must overcome the anxiety and fear in order to win what is behind the curtains and the bonus round, some of the lost happiness. The story is designed to encourage the listener to find creative ways to combat anxiety. It highlights the ability we all have, to overcome our fears and anxieties. 

A short story of a teenage boy called James who is confused about the current development of himself both physically and mentally. He finds it difficult to discuss them with his parents, but rather feels comfortable with his grandad. He makes a trip to grandad's house for explanation and advise. Grandad is straight forward with providing answers and encouraging him. 

This is a story about a young boy and his journey into the world of anxiety. There, he must face his fears—a scary monster called Boo, who keeps telling him that bad things will happen and that the world is full of hatred and rage. Like most of us would, the boy first tries to escape. To run away from it. But no matter how much he struggles, the monster is always there. Exhausted and terrified, the boy stops doing all the things he loves to do. Except for one thing. He draws. And in those magical moments, there is no rage. No fear. No darkness. Just the boy, the pencil, and the paper.

Bobby Beacon’s got fire flowing through his veins. And now he’s psyched to attend a new school that’ll help him get a better grip on his powers. But right off the bat, his new teacher is not too welcoming. That causes Bobby’s hot temper to land him in the principal’s office. It ain’t easy to stay calm when people don’t seem to understand you and are always pushing you to the edge. Good thing Bobby gets moved to a class with an understanding teacher who clues him in on ways to calm himself and shows him that caring for others is its own kind of superpower.

A Message in the Moon was inspired by Downey’s own story of losing her mother when she was just ten years old and the comfort her father brought her. Years later, when Downey left home for college, her father pointed to the full moon and told her, "Whenever you feel alone, always look into the night sky, and you’ll be reminded of how much I love you. I’ll leave a message for you in the moon.” That simple comfort remains with Downey today, and now she is passing it on to parents and children alike.

An easy-to-follow and empowering guide to help children understand and control their worries. This guide includes child-friendly techniques and useful tips on how to deal with worrying. Presented using short, inspiring rhymes, this fantastic resource shows anxious children that they have the power to control their thoughts with various methods, including mindfulness, writing worries away, and by showing self-love. It also includes an example coping kit that children can use anywhere when a worry comes along! 

This is a true story of growing up, breaking down, and coming to grips with a psychological disorder. When Samantha Schutz first left home for college, she was excited by the possibilities - freedom from parents, freedom from a boyfriend who was reckless with her affections, freedom from the person she was supposed to be. At first, she revelled in the independence...but as pressures increased, she began to suffer anxiety attacks that would leave her mentally shaken and physically incapacitated.

Award winning series. A fun listen, a tool for life...The stress, worry, and anxiety our children face is greater than any generation before. Anxiety disorders affect one in eight children. Research shows that untreated children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk to perform poorly in school, miss out on important social experiences, and engage in substance abuse. Don't let your children deal with this by themselves. This audiobook and the tools it contains can give your children the normal childhood they deserve.

From Australia's best-selling anxiety expert, Bev Aisbett, comes an essential guide for these anxious times. Worry-Proofing Your Anxious Child is a calm, clear, and, above all, reassuring guide to help parents (and teachers) of anxious children. Filled with simple explanations and practical advice, this guide will assist everyone who wants to help a child overcome their anxieties and learn to live more confidently.

This accessible and fun guide to meditation and mindfulness is the perfect introduction for young children. Meditation does a body good and can even help kids as young as four or five. This practical guide is gentle, clear, and a pleasure to use. Kids will learn how to focus on their breath, on the sensations in their body, and on the sounds around them to help them relax, settle their busy minds, and understand their emotions.

Every human is born with an automatic response system (nervous) that produces a flight-or-fight response whenever we are faced with a situation that appears scary or takes us off guard. When we are met with an unexpected situation, there is a part of the brain that controls how we react, whether we choose to fight or take a flight. It is that part of the brain that brings about anxiety. It is the same for children. Some leading factors that add to the anxiety disorder in children include biological factors, family factors, and environmental factors.

Halfway through the fifth grade, Penny Lowry is discovering that things are actually going . . . okay! With her friends Maria, Kristian, and Rocco on her side, and her lovable dog Cosmo, she can make it through anything. And when her anxiety comes back, there's always her doodling, or talking to Mrs. Hines, the Feelings Teacher. But big change is around the corner: Penny's family is moving to a new house, her mom is about to give birth to twins, and most stressful of all, she's been tapped for a role in her class play!

Penny Hope used to be brave, but that was before she met the Fear Maker. Years later, he still haunts her nightmares―a tall, thin man with red eyes, in a haunted house in the woods, who devours human souls and leaves their eyes hollow and empty. Penny’s beloved grandma tells her to write down these nightmares as poems in her notebook. But then Penny starts seeing blank-eyed people in the waking world, too. She’s the only one who notices.

If you want to get to know Marina Ali-O'Connor, you need to know three things: One, despite her name, Marina is secretly afraid of the water. Two, she wanted to be one of the Oldest Siblings, but is stuck smack dab in the middle. Three, she's pretty certain she's the Extra Ali-O'Connor kid—the forgotten one. When Boom, a budding filmmaker exactly Marina's age, moves in across the lagoon, she decides that Marina's quest to become someone's favorite Ali-O'Connor would make a perfect documentary.

"The Fir Tree" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot appreciate living in the moment. It is a melancholy story, warning about the dangers of always expecting greater glory just around the corner, only to be disappointed or to regret the unappreciated instants; only the moment is worthwhile.

In Pout-Pout Fish: Goes to the Dentist, Mr. Fish is getting nervous - will the dentist be able to help him smile?

From voices tall as a tree, to voices small as a bee, all it takes is confidence and a belief in the goodness of others to change the world. Coming at a time when issues of social justice are at the forefront of our society, this is the perfect audiobook to teach children in and out of the classroom that they're not too young to express what they believe in and that all voices are valuable.

Inspired by kids across the country displaying rainbows in their windows, acclaimed illustrators come together to imagine everything these rainbows represent: caring for one another, and our hopes for the future. In this collection, listeners will lick an ice cream cone, swim in the ocean, cuddle close with cousins, and celebrate a birthday with a party full of friends and family.

Karma Moon is a firm believer in everything "woo-woo", as her dad calls it. So when she asked her trusty Crystal Mystic if the call asking her dad to create a ghost-hunting docuseries was her dad's big break, it delivered: "No doubt about it." Because the universe never gets it wrong. Only people do.