Learn ways to help your child's anxiety about going back to school during the pandemic.…
By Janis D. Gioia, MAEd. These are scary, unsettling, unprecedented times. For us, as adults, and certainly for the children in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life as we know it for now. Children and teens with anxiety disorders and autism, and…
Holiday Anxiety and Anxious Kids: Ways to Help Children with Anxiety Disorders and Autism Have Happier Holidays
By Janis D. Gioia, MAEd. Holiday anxiety. You probably began feeling it with the first Black Friday commercial. The anticipation and dread of what lies ahead: buying gifts, cooking holiday meals, entertaining and decorating. And while children may not exactly be doing these things,…
Image Courtesy of Tiger Tales Books. Comforting Anxious Children’s Soothing Story #5 By Janis D. Gioia, MAEd. Anxious kids worry. Usually quite a bit and often before bed, which makes bedtime, worry time. They have little worries, big worries, and in-between worries. For…