Change Lenses – Parenting an Anxious Child
“My disposition has much to do with how I view myself, other people, and problems. Parenting forcibly taught me to put on different lenses for viewing the problems and the precious people in my home. One set of lenses I exchanged were the lenses through which I viewed anxiety. Not innately being an anxious person, except as a passenger in a careening car, I struggled to see why it wasn’t easily fixed. Akin to Bob Newhart’s counsel on Saturday Night Live to just, “Stop It,” I struggled to embrace its far reaching effects. Struggled to allow space for it in our home. Struggled to know my role.”
