What Makes Me Anxious - Parent 1

Your student is participating in classroom activities helping them learn what makes them feel anxious or worried. We would love for you to keep the discussion going at home!

Definition: Anxiety is the feeling of worry or nervousness; an uneasy feeling.

Here are just a few ideas to help get the conversation started:

• Discuss what clues help them know someone is anxious.
• trying to avoid others
• face looks worried (scrunched up eyebrows)
• can’t pay attention to teacher or learning
• always looking at door or outside
• Allow your child to share how they feel when others are anxious.
• You may also want to share your own situations that cause you to feel worried or anxious.

• Talk with your child about what makes them anxious or worried.
• Discuss with them what you can do to help them when they are anxious.
• You may ask them about the coping skills cards they may have made in class.
• Offer your own coping strategies for lessening anxiety or worry.
• Be sure to discuss that it is natural to feel worried or anxious. The important part is to talk to someone you trust about the feelings and use a strategy to lessen that feeling.
• Role play situations that make your child anxious and allow them to use their coping tools/cards that they made and learned about in class.