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May 3, 2020 · Leave a Comment

21 Children’s Books that Address Worry & Anxiety

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Our FAVOuRITE books series
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Looking for a gentle way to support your child in dealing with their worry and anxiety? Books are an excellent way!

Books about worry, anxiety, and building resilience are always high on my priority list. With a global pandemic happening, they are now more than ever. Find some of my favourites below!

Help Your Dragon Deal With Anxiety: Train Your Dragon To Overcome Anxiety.

This book is a part of the larger My Dragon Books book series, and like all of books in the series it uses kid friendly language to explain big subjects. This book has been a hit with my 5-8 year olds. It has helped them to self-identify, acknowledge worries, think about them differently and learn some strategies for their every day coping.


Worry says what

My goal has always been to teach my kids to talk back to worry. They can’t help but worry, but they can be helped to talk back to their worries! This book is a gem when it comes to teaching talking back (to worries that is!) and to support in using positive affirmations. Written by the best selling author, Allison Edwards, this book is one of my favourites!


What was I scared of

This book uses humour to engage children and bridge to conversations. A must have for Dr. Seuss fans!


When worry takes hold

Another wonderful story about a little girl who is able to overcome her worries. They don’t go away but she is able to overcome them through strategies that kids are easily able to implement in their day. A great read to encourage open communication between yourself and your child and filled with lovely illustrations!


The Don’t Worry book

Yet another of Todd Parr’s amazing books. This book talks about every day things that may bring your child stress or worry in a way that young children can easily relate. It offers strategies and opportunity for conversation. A great read for younger children!


Up and down the worry hill

This book proved incredibly helpful when my little’s anxiety started to show with some OCD tendencies. It gives a great framework for conversation and helps parents see this form of anxiety through the eyes of a child.


What to do when you worry too much: a kid’s guide to overcoming anxiety

This is one of my favourites! This award winning book is designed for parents and children to use together. It brings cognitive behavioural techniques into your home by offering simple, easy to use, day to day strategies that can be used by kids AND their parents!


Outsmarting worry

This book is geared towards a children who are a bit older and helps them to identify how they are feeling. It teaches them specific skills that they can use to help them deal with, and hopefully overcome, some of their worries.


Jonathan James and the WHatif Monster

This is a great book for little ones. It helps them to question worry and realize there are two sides to the “what if” questions. It’s not always “what if I am really bad at ______,” it can also be “what if I am really good at _____?” Somehow the message lands a little differently coming from Jonathan than it does a regular old parent! The Whatif Monster Chapter Book Series also has some great books for older kids!


Mindful Bea And the worry tree

Written by an award winning author, this book includes a special note to parents helping them to better understand a child’s anxiety. It teaches deep breathing and visualization skills and approaches the topic of anxiety in an easy to read, child friendly, way.


Breathe Like a Bear: 30 Mindful Moments for Kids to Feel Calm and Focused Anytime, Anywhere

This is one of my favourites! This book helps children to manage their feelings of anxiety and worry through mindfulness activities. It includes a variety of bite-sized meditations making it a perfect guide for children. This book helps to support your child in a framework that will serve them well for the rest of their lives!


When my worries get too big

This book is full of ideas and strategies to help children with self-calming, and the behavioural outcomes of “too big” feelings.


Worries go away!

This is a great book that encourages talking to an adult rather than keeping feelings inside. It offers a great starting point to further conversation about worry and managing feelings.


Koby the little blue kangaroo who worried all day

This book follows a little kangaroo who worries about a lot of the same things as our children! He models a way to change worries to happy thoughts with a little bit of practice. This is a cute book for younger children to help them realize they aren’t alone in their worries! This book is a part of a larger series that deals with different childhood issues.


Don’t feed the worry bug

This book is a part of The Worry Woos Book Series and won the 2019 Child Mind Institute Pick for Best Children’s Books For Helping Kids Understand Anxiety. The story’s character, Wince, teaches children to embrace their worry, without allowing it to overcome them.


The invisible string

This is a story about love and connections. It supports children (and parents!) struggling with separation anxiety, by reminding them that our hearts are always connected. This is a beautiful story to support our children when they are being separated by loved ones for any reason.


The worrywarts

Another great book about “what if” questions for little ones! This is a funny book and has a focus on wrestling your worries, and the letter W, so be prepared to work on your alliteration!


The huge bag of worries

A wonderful book for little ones. This book follows a little girl who carries around a bag of worries with her everywhere she goes and through her process of conquering them. This book supports children in learning to identify their worries and open up about them.


The panicosaurus

This book finds a clever way to explain to children how their brains create anxiety. It provides children, and their parents, ways to help when the feeling of anxiety arises.


My Magic Breath: Finding Calm Through Mindful Breathing

Written by New York Times bestselling author, Nick Ortner, this book teaches children a process of mindful breathing as a strategy to finding calm. It is a simple to understand, beautifully written book, with beautiful illustrations.


listening with my heart

This book gives a reminder to children that while it is important to show kindness and compassion to others, it is also important to show kindness and compassion to themselves. This is important for self-acceptance, self-confidence, and resiliency. It’s a book with an important message and beautiful illustrations!


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By supporting her in her idea πŸ’‘ to build her snowman up high, guess who got to do those 100 steps? That’s right. Mom πŸ™‹πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

Because of course she couldn’t let him go. She HAD to stay with him β›„ 

The rolling and packing (numerous times because it wasn’t packing snow!) was done by yours truly...while she supervised and governed (ahem...dictated) from her perch above me 🀣

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We have loved our @playosmo since the second we got it! πŸ‘πŸ» When the schools shut down last year I don’t think I could have told more people about how much they needed one πŸ˜†β£
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It supplements our home school curriculum beautifully and gives extra support for our public schooler in a way that makes learning at home so much fun πŸ€Έβ€β™€οΈ. ⁣
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Today I walked into the room to find this kiddo cozied up at her desk in the sun β˜€ , playing away, making potions πŸ§ͺ, and shrieking with delight as she worked towards the next stage of the game πŸ’• Math doesn’t come naturally to her, and it has never been something she opts to do independently, until now! {insert happy mom dance πŸ’ƒ }⁣
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I love that she got this out independently, not because it’s math time, but just for entertainment because she loves it πŸ˜€!! I’m not sure if it’s the wizards, potion-making, animated characters, or all of the above, but I will take it! πŸ™‹πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ ⁣
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I love that this game will grow with her as her skills expand so the curriculum-inspired potion-making πŸ§ͺcan continue for a long time to comeπŸ‘πŸ» ⁣
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My littlest πŸ‘¦πŸΌ who you probably know LOVES his screens, eats this right up too! And you know what?! No mom-guilt here πŸ‘πŸ», because he is learning and growing with every moment he spends playing, so it’s all good! πŸ₯°β£
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There is so much more to play than a way to spend time ⏰

We are all aware of the physical benefits of active play ⛹️‍♂️ but what we sometimes overlook are the emotional benefits πŸ’œ

I’ve got a β€œbusy” πŸ‘¦πŸΌ boy who needs to move like he needs to breathe! 

He processes his emotions through movement. Active toys πŸ›Ή let him:

✨express built up or suppressed emotions
✨build coping skills
✨increase body-based awareness 
✨take body breaks to help focus
✨ expel physical emotion so he can engage more in conversation 

It has been a weird (aka HARD) last year. A recent conversation with our Naturopathic Doctor πŸ‘©πŸ»β€βš•οΈ reminded me that this kid processes his emotions through movement.

That reminder was definitely needed! πŸ’•

We did some reorganizing and now have an indoor trampoline and active toys like this awesome board (@spoonerboards) nearby throughout the day β˜€οΈ. His ability to self-regulate now amazes meπŸ’•. 

When he’s getting stressed from school, is frustrated with something (usually his sister πŸ‘§πŸΌ) or is just feeling sad, he’ll hop on the trampoline or jump on his #spoonerboard and noticeably feel better in minutes 😍

He also wants to be all of the things (snowboarder πŸ‚, surfer πŸ„β€β™‚οΈ & skateboarder πŸ›Ή) so this training board has been amazing for building confidence, increasing balance, and helping him feel he is on the way to accomplishing his goals πŸ‘πŸ»

Link for @spoonerboards is in my bio (affiliate link) πŸ’•
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We have been relishing in our slow time together at home and have been doing so much baking. 

The kids have been loving having baking/decorating competitions...but I’m running out of items to compete over! 

Ideas?! πŸ‘‡πŸ»
β€œπ•€π•Ÿ 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣π•ͺ π•¨π•’π•π•œ β€œπ•€π•Ÿ 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣π•ͺ π•¨π•’π•π•œ π•¨π•šπ•₯𝕙 π•Ÿπ•’π•₯𝕦𝕣𝕖, π• π•Ÿπ•– π•£π•–π•”π•–π•šπ•§π•–π•€ 𝕗𝕒𝕣 π•žπ• π•£π•– π•₯π•™π•’π•Ÿ 𝕙𝕖 π•€π•–π•–π•œπ•€.”
π•π• π•™π•Ÿ π•„π•¦π•šπ•£

Today, it was the simple wish to make a snow angel, which of course lead to pondering how to get up without undoing his careful work, which lead to better problem solving skills and creativity. 

He doesn’t see his learning, but I do πŸ’•
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