What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What-to-Do Guides for Kids®) Paperback – 30 Sept. 2005

Interesting book. Teaches strategies for overcoming worry. Great illustrations and easy to understand analogies make you want to keep reading until the end. This is the second book I’ve read by Dawn Huebner and I’m already looking forward to the next!

Excellent book that helps kids tackle worry - not just telling them " there there it will be alright" .... this book actually starts off slowly and continues at a very good pace that allows children of different ages and their parent/guardians to absorb the information and really see how worries can grow too big to handle and then it continues by telling the reader how to combat worry, how to handle it in a very manageable way and what to do when they feel tense or sick with worry. It gives a short list of reminders on how to handle worry - easy for kids to hang in their rooms. It involves the children in drawing pictures and shows them how they can actually make worries bigger and how they can make them smaller and this helps kids to feel like they have a hand in how they cope with worry and helps them feel in control. Really awesome book - I don't want to tell you anymore as I will spoil it for you !!I have lent this book to my three friends and they loved it and bought their own and their 6 children have been helped and their parents are relieved and now I am buying it for my sister in law for her 3 kids. This book helped my friends kids that are aged between 6 and 14 years - I cannot stress how important this book is for helping kids and their minders recognise, handle and cope with worry and learn how to avoid it and actually help themselves feel empowered not weighed down with worry. I love this book, every child should have one, kids worry about the most ridiculous things but sometimes the smallest worry can cripple a child. For children with big genuine worries, it tells them how to analyse them and see how they can actively manage that worry and even banish them.It also helps parents/guardians that are harassed by kids that worry a lot and ask questions all day long about their worries. Brilliant book, well worth the money. I sat and did the whole book in 3 hours with my two kids aged 8 and 10 as they don't really have any major worries but I wanted them to have coping mechanisms in place for when they are teenagers facing peer pressure and stress. We review the 'how not to worry' methods from time to time and they are happy, stress free kids : ) The author recommends doing one section at a time and waiting a few days for that to be absorbed and then do the next section/chapter but my kids were really excited and 'into it' that they didn't want to stop. Get this book, you will be glad you did, I wish I'd had one when I was a nipper.I will be keeping this book for my grandchildren in case it goes out of print !! But I am sure it will still be in print 30 years from now, it's that good.

My eldest (11) daughter is struggling ALOT with transition to secondary school. An anxious temperament, combined with the craziness of completing year 6 in 2020 lockdown has meant that many of the usual rights of passage didn't happen.Daily (particularly on Monday) she struggles with mornings, missing us, feels sick, cries, and all of the usual anxious responses. It's never based on clear and present worries, but as someone with anxieties myself, that's not important. The response is the thing, not the source.So how does this book approach things. Well at first sight it comes across as a bit baby-ish. A4 size and large text. But as soon as you open it up it becomes clear that it's going to be all ok.We worked through the book over a few evenings, reading together at bedtime. The first section covers how simple basic concerns and worries can turn into all consuming anxiety. It then moves onto accepting the position, and how to spot how the anxiety is based. Finally we get some simple, easy to understand techniques and processes to help alleviate, manage, and ultimately shrivel the anxiety back down to a sensible and more logical scale.The book itself is pitched at a great level for us. I treated it more as a guided conversation, with discussions between my daughter and I on topics. there was room on specific pages to write down answers to questions, but I felt the process to be more fluid when discussed.So has it been successful? Well yes, but I didn't expect overnight instant results. We are getting better every day, with time being a wonderful tool to help. What's important is that the reactions are more controlled, not as emotionally driven, and also more limited in intensity and duration. A few weeks ago they all rolled into one panic. Now we can get through breakfast and out of the door without too much fuss. And there's been no crying at school for a long time now.Importantly the book doesn't validate or encourage anxiety, it simply acknowledges its existence and provides some lovely family friendly metaphors and techniques to help.