Overcoming parental anxiety. How to raise children without unnecessary worry.

This book for parents explains how defining their values, paying attention to the moment, and developing self-compassion can help overcome excessive worry about their child once and for all. It offers specific exercises based on the latest advances in neuroscience that allow you to reprogram the "parental brain" to achieve peace and replace parental anxiety with parental effectiveness. The book is aimed at anyone who would like to tame the anxiety that often accompanies raising children and instead find joy, empathy, and a closer bond with their child. Are you constantly worrying about your child? Perhaps they are falling behind in certain developmental milestones, struggling in school, having difficulty making friends, or heading off to college far from home for the first time. In any case, when a child's problems become the parents' problems, the latter can experience strong anxiety that prevents them from enjoying parenting and interacting with their children. But it's not all bad! You can reprogram the "parental brain" to react differently to what is happening and replace anxiety with parental effectiveness. From this book, you will learn how defining your own values, paying attention to the present moment, and developing self-compassion can help overcome excessive worry once and for all. It also presents targeted exercises to minimize worry so that you can live more fully and enjoy the shared experience with your children. Thanks to the brain's ability to create new neural connections, you can achieve that elusive sense of peace that comes so easily to some parents. The simple skills described here, based on neuroscience achievements, will help you start this important work. "This is truly important for all parents. The book shows how to tame the anxiety that often accompanies raising children and instead find joy, compassion, and connection with your child." — Kevin L. Gierke, Ph.D. in Psychology.