{"id":2872,"date":"2017-05-26T12:56:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T16:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2017-05-26T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T16:56:58","slug":"what-to-say-to-an-anxious-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/26\/what-to-say-to-an-anxious-child\/","title":{"rendered":"What to say to an anxious child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your child struggles with anxiety, you know the challenge of finding the right things to say when he or she is worried. It\u2019s not easy to connect without making the fears worse, while at the same time offering support and encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>Are you curious how you can help calm an anxious child? Rather than telling your child \u201cYou\u2019ll be fine,\u201d or \u201cDon\u2019t worry about it,\u201d try one of these phrases the next time your child is feeling worried:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lemonlimeadventures.com\/what-to-say-to-calm-an-anxious-child\/\">What to Say to an Anxious Child<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your child struggles with anxiety, you know the challenge of finding the right things to say when he or she is worried. It\u2019s not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}