Playing with Anxiety: Casey's Guide for Teens and Kids

Playing with Anxiety: Casey's Guide for Teens and Kids

Casey, the fourteen year old narrator, knows just what itâ€™s like to be miserable. It started slowly: backing away from birthday parties, avoiding the Fourth of July fireworks, leaving before the end of movies. By second grade, stomach aches and tantrums before school seemed as common as strawberry jelly on toast. Then, just before her fourth grade chorus concertâ€”as her mom was braiding her hairâ€”Casey puked. No concert. No post-concert ice cream with her friends. Only a night filled with tears. Everything changed that next morning. Casey and her mom had had enough! The days of being timid were over. They got mad and decided then and there to solve the puzzle called worry. Casey expresses a serious commitment to the task, but couples it with feisty, irreverent humor, as she releases a gaggle of characters and their stories. The narrative offers cautious kids (and their sometimes worried, often frustrated parents) a realistic guide for stepping into the new and scary experiments that arrive at each developmental stage, right up through the teen years. Will her frightful encounter with the snarling dog keep her forever from walking to the bus stop, or the ominous storm clouds end her fun at the water park? Will an asparagus-dog with cheese get her into the clubhouse-building project? Can you really talk to your worry like itâ€™s a squirrel? Will Lindseyâ€™s coaching to â€œloosen up and screamâ€ actually help her handle the scary-but-awesome one-minute and fifty-two second Yankee Cannonball roller coaster? In PLAYING WITH ANXIETY: CASEYâ€™S GUIDE FOR TEENS AND KIDS, the companion book to Reid Wilson and Lynn Lyonsâ€™ parenting book, ANXIOUS KIDS, ANXIOUS PARENTS: 7 WAYS TO STOP THE WORRY CYCLE AND RAISE COURAGEOUS & INDEPENDENT CHILDREN (HCI Books, 2013), Casey includes stories of everyday encountersâ€”imagining warm chocolate chip cookies coming out of the oven, brother Elliotâ€™s MARSH MAN comic bookâ€”as well as surprising featsâ€”the accidental discovery of Post-it Notes, Benjaminâ€™s uncle Steveâ€™s jump from the helicopter, blind Eric Weihenmayerâ€™s climb of the Seven Summitsâ€”to show the reader how to face the trials of the middle years.
Country USA
Brand Pathway Systems
Manufacturer Pathway Systems
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780963068330
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Pathway Systems
Manufacturer	Pathway Systems
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780963068330
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Playing with Anxiety: Casey's Guide for Teens and Kids

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