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You can take an active role in navigating your nervousness and that of your child by modeling 3 guideposts.

Focus on controlling what you can control. Then you can have an impact on things that are indeed changeable.

Children of any age can learn from you that overwhelming things can be responded to.

These are difficult days for just about everyone. It is common for people coming to us to note that they are feeling more uneasy and that everyone they know is too. Parents are struggling with issues from financial insecurity to political unrest to safety concerns amid news reports of shootings and teen suicides. They are also seeing that the baseline level of anxiety in their children is at an all-time high, and this only exacerbates their own worrying.

How can you manage your feelings and those of your child? We have 3 guideposts to support you through these times. We suggest you talk with your child and model these as ways to work with what feels overwhelming to them. You are conveying that being upset is something we work with rather than something that's unchangeable. You can do this even with........

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