Anxious Parenting: Breaking the Cycle Before It Passes to Your Kids - Couverture souple

Wexford, Fiona

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1804283193 ISBN 13 : 9781804283196

Editeur : Readers First Publishing Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

The checking never stops-it just finds new forms, and the harder you try to protect your child from harm, the

more you train them to expect danger where none exists. Fiona Wexford's insightful book explores how parental

anxiety disguises itself as responsible care and the patterns that transform protectiveness into exhausting cycles

of worry.

When vigilance stops feeling optional and starts feeling like a job you're perpetually failing, anxiety has stopped

being an emotion and become a parenting strategy. Anxious Parenting is not a clinical guide, a meditation app,

or a list of calming mantras. Instead, it identifies the behavioral mechanisms that turn checking into compulsion

and reveals how protective instincts can undermine the very resilience you're trying to build.

Through real family scenarios, you will recognize the hidden dynamics driving anxious parenting:

- The Migrating Monitor: Why the urge to check doesn't disappear when your child outgrows the crib-it

simply attaches to new fears, creating an endless cycle of verification that never satisfies.

- The Job with No Finish Line: How "keeping them safe" transforms from a protective instinct into an

hourly task with escalating requirements and no metric for success.

- The Emotional Thermostat: Why your child isn't afraid of the dog or the dark-they're reading your fear

and calculating whether they need to be afraid too.

This book gives you the tools to interrupt the checking loop before it becomes compulsion, redirect catastrophic

thinking without dismissing real concerns, and build a parenting stance that protects without requiring constant

verification. Start reading Anxious Parenting today and free yourself from exhausting cycles of worry-without

abandoning your child's safety.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Readers First Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1804283193
• ISBN 13: 9781804283196
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible