How To Help Kids Through Back-To-School Anxiety At Any Age

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In today's episode, How To Help Kids Through Back-To-School Anxiety At Any Age, Back-to-school anxiety is not a sign that something is wrong with your kid; it is their nervous system scanning for safety when everything feels new. I break down what school anxiety looks like at different ages and share simple tools that help kids feel connected instead of pushed to “get over it.”

 
• reframing first-day flutter as normal nervous system biology 
• why logic fails and co-regulation works through connection 
• anxiety as a companion rather than something to eliminate 
• elementary kids asking will someone take care of me and using a steady goodbye ritual 
• why sneaking away can increase anxiety over time 
• middle schoolers asking do I belong and how anxiety can look like attitude 
• executive function under construction and why kids come home smoked 
• sideways conversations that open the door without interrogation 
• teens asking does this matter and can I survive it amid achievement pressure and online life 
• modeling honest, unpolished stories instead of platitudes 
• the core truth that anxiety is not the enemy, disconnection is 

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Catia Hernandez Holm, LMFT-A 

Supervised by Susan Gonzales, LMFT-S, LPC-S

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