You don’t need a plan or a script tonight, just a few honest sentences you can say out loud, right when it counts.
“You don't have to have the whole path figured out tonight.”
“You've handled every new thing so far. This is one more new thing.”
“We'll take the next part one step at a time.”
Pointing back at what a child has already survived is more convincing than promising the future will be fine.
In their story, a character walks toward something unknown and realizes partway through that they're already carrying everything they need for it.
It ends with a calm kind of determination: the sense that the future is something you walk out to meet, not something that just happens to you.
Read more: Stories for Anxious Children: A Gentle, Practical Approach
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