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Helping Your Child Overcome Anxieties, Fears, and Rocky Transitions

Helping Your Child Overcome Anxieties, Fears, and Rocky Transitions

Update: 2025-09-02

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Transitions tend to be difficult for young children, and they express their struggles in a variety of concerning ways. They may be focused to distraction on particular random-seeming anxieties and fears. Worse, they take their feelings out on us by being uncooperative or lashing out in violent meltdowns. Two families reach out to Janet with these issues, and she proposes a three-step approach to help resolve them.

Janet's "No Bad Kids Master Course" is at: NoBadKidsCourse.com

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Helping Your Child Overcome Anxieties, Fears, and Rocky Transitions

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