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What to Do When You Worry Too Much
A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What to Do Guides for Kids)
80 pages
An interactive, empowering toolkit that uses lively metaphors to help children shrink their overgrown worries.
What it feels like
Reading this guide feels like sitting down with a supportive, humorous mentor who knows exactly how to make big, scary feelings manageable. The experience is highly interactive and steady-paced, inviting children to draw, write, and actively participate in their own emotional growth. Through lively metaphors—like comparing worries to tomatoes that grow when you pay attention to them—the text transforms abstract cognitive-behavioral concepts into tangible, kid-friendly lessons. The mood is consistently encouraging and constructive, replacing the heavy burden of daily anxiety with a sense of empowerment. It is an ideal resource for children and their parents seeking a practical, hands-on approach to mastering new coping skills and shrinking overgrown worries down to size.
- Mood
- comforting
- supportive
- constructive
- Tone
- encouraging
- humorous
- educational
- empowering
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- overcoming anxiety · emotional regulation · cognitive-behavioral skills · understanding feelings
- The writing
- Accessible and engaging, relying on lively metaphors and clear, actionable prompts.
- The arc
- Moves from the overwhelming feeling of unmanageable worry to a sense of empowered, active control.
- Who it's for
- Children experiencing daily anxiety and their parents seeking a practical, interactive toolkit.
Content notes
- discussions of anxiety and worry
About the book
Did you know that worries are like tomatoes? No, you can't eat them, but you can make them grow, simply by paying attention to them. If your worries have grown so big that they bother you almost every day, this book is for you. What to Do When You Worry Too Much guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety. Lively metaphors and humorous illustrations make the concepts and strategies easy to understand, while clear how-to steps and prompts to draw and write help children to master new skills related to reducing anxiety. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering kids to overcoming their overgrown worries.
Description from Open Library.
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