
Why Smart Kids Worry
And What Parents Can Do to Help
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Allyson Ryan
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Allison Edwards
About this listen
Being the parent of a smart child is great - until your son or daughter starts asking whether global warming is real, if you are going to die, and what will happen if they don't get into college. Kids who are advanced intellectually often let their imaginations run wild and experience fears beyond their years. So what can you do to help?
In Why Smart Kids Worry, Allison Edwards guides you through the mental and emotional process of where your child's fears come from and why they are so hard to move past. Edwards focuses on how to parent a child who is both smart and anxious and brings her years of experience as a therapist to give you the answers to questions such as:
- How do smart kids think differently?
- Should I let my child watch the nightly news on TV?
- How do I answer questions about terrorists, hurricanes, and other scary subjects?
Edwards's 15 specially designed tools for helping smart kids manage their fears will help you and your child work together to help him or her to become more relaxed and worry-free.
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By: Lynn Lyons, and others
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Helping Your Anxious Child
- A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents
- By: Ronald M. Rapee PhD, Ann Wignall D.Psych, Susan H. Spence PhD, and others
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Most children are afraid of the dark. Some fear monsters under the bed. But 10 percent of children have excessive fears and worries - phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder - that can hold them back and keep them from fully enjoying childhood. If your child suffers from any of these forms of anxiety, the program in this book offers practical, scientifically proven tools that can help.
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Repetitive but great strategies
- By MCBH on 08-31-17
By: Ronald M. Rapee PhD, and others
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The Self-Driven Child
- The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control over Their Lives
- By: William Stixrud PhD, Ned Johnson
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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Many of us know we're putting too much pressure on our kids - and on ourselves - but how do we get off this crazy train? We want our children to succeed, to be their best, and to do their best, but what if they are not on board? A few years ago, Ned Johnson and Bill Stixrud started noticing the same problem from different angles: even high-performing kids were coming to them acutely stressed and lacking any real motivation. Many complained that they had no real control over their lives.
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Alt title: Okay ideas to help kids of rich parents
- By S. Ma on 08-10-22
By: William Stixrud PhD, and others
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Raising Good Humans
- A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
- By: Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE, Carla Naumburg PhD
- Narrated by: Jennifer Gilmour
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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With this book, you’ll find powerful mindfulness skills for calming your own stress response when difficult emotions arise. You’ll also discover strategies for cultivating respectful communication, effective conflict resolution, and reflective listening. In the process, you’ll learn to examine your own unhelpful patterns and ingrained reactions that reflect the generational habits shaped by your parents, so you can break the cycle and respond to your children in more skillful ways.
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Great Book About Parenting and Teaching Kindness!
- By Ma P on 09-11-20
By: Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE, and others
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Raising Securely Attached Kids
- Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience
- By: Eli Harwood
- Narrated by: Eli Harwood, KJ Althoff, Te Anna Brown, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Therapist and wildly popular attachment research expert Eli Harwood (a.k.a. Attachment Nerd) illuminates attachment theory as foundational to the only parenting approach proven to have a lasting impact.
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PRACTICAL & POIGNANT
- By marley on 10-16-24
By: Eli Harwood
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The Whole-Brain Child
- 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
- By: Daniel J. Siegel M.D., Tina Payne Bryson
- Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel M.D., Tina Payne Bryson
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children. The authors explain—and make accessible—the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures.
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Several comments on the brain were incorrect.
- By Abelle on 04-18-23
By: Daniel J. Siegel M.D., and others
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The Anxious Generation
- How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
- By: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s.
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A Parenting Book for the 2020's
- By Looks and feels great. Even has little pads to prevent scratching on 03-29-24
By: Jonathan Haidt
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- Cynthia stinson
- 10-13-21
Excellent read for parents and caregivers
As a Professional Nanny, I will use all the information and tips I learned from listening to this audible book.
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- tgoodnight
- 09-11-22
Nailed it and then some…
I’m really glad that I had someone recommend this book. They said it would explain our daughter to us a little bit because she’s so smart. Every moment I thought oh she doesn’t worry about these things within a few days I would hear her and she would bring up some thing that was talked about in the book. If you have a smart kid it is well worth listening to this book just so that you understand what they’re going through and why they little minds are working a mile a minute when yours didn’t maybe do that the same way. I look forward to reading other books by her around this topic or others.
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- Ace
- 05-13-22
Helped not only my child but me too
I found the tools really helpful and my daughter's anxiety has been manageable for her. I also found it helped us communicate better because i understand where she is at. I found some of the tools useful for myself as well, why i have anxiety, how we process it is different. This book bridged the gap for us.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-06-20
real talk and answers!
The book had so many examples that I could relate with and then solutions. I will definitely be buying a hard copy as a reference.
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- Konstantin
- 06-03-24
useful information
I love the tools that were provided. I loved the voice of the narrator.
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- Canyon
- 03-05-24
A pragmatic book with great voice and compassion
This book is not only full of actionable tools to help your child grow with their anxiety, but a wide lense view of child psychology that puts the use of these tools into perspective.
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- Kendra Barnes (The Key Resource)
- 03-15-25
I feel like this book was made for my family
While listening to this book, I kept thinking… wow does she know my daughter?! Did she write this book for me?! The information was exactly what we needed and I’m so grateful.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-27-21
Learned a lot
I enjoyed listening and learned a lot from it as a mom of 3 boys
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- Justin Schlegel
- 01-12-23
Super Relatable
One of our children has quite a bit of anxiety, and there were many aspects in this book that are easily relatable.
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