
Why Trying to “Reason” With Your Child’s OCD Backfires
It feels so natural to explain, reassure, and try to calm your child down when OCD is loud. After all, that’s how we solve problems in real...
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The truth is we are all surviving parenting one day at a time. Add child anxiety or childhood OCD and it can be overwhelming! On The AT Parenting Survival Podcast your host Natasha Daniels w...

It feels so natural to explain, reassure, and try to calm your child down when OCD is loud. After all, that’s how we solve problems in real...

Most parents think the hardest part of raising a child with anxiety or OCD is figuring out what to do. But the truth is, learning the skills...

When you’re parenting a child with anxiety or OCD, it’s easy to get caught in a constant push to fix, improve, and move things forward. But...

Good communication can feel like the missing piece when you’re raising a child with anxiety or OCD. You’re talking, explaining, reassuring,...

When our child is anxious or stuck in OCD, everything can feel urgent. The questions, the reassurance seeking, the distress, the pressure to...

Parents often hear the same questions from their child again and again, and it can be hard to know if answering is helping or making things...

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Most parents think they know what their child’s OCD looks like. They see the washing. The checking. The obvious behaviors. But what they’re...

Harm OCD is one of the most frightening and misunderstood themes of OCD, especially when it shows up in children. Intrusive thoughts about h...

OCD rarely stays contained inside your child’s mind. It often pulls parents directly into the cycle through reassurance questions, confessin...

How do you know if your child is just worried, anxious, or dealing with OCD? Kids worry. That’s normal. But sometimes fear sticks around lon...

In this episode, we talk about one of the most confusing and discouraging moments for parents raising a child with OCD, when things seem to...

In this episode, I break down why logical explanations, reassurance, and “talking it through” so often backfire when your child has OCD. Whi...

In this heartfelt and insightful episode, I sit down with Mia Mason, the creative force behind Worry’s Whispers , a beautifully illustrated...

When parents start looking for help for a child with OCD, the process can feel confusing, overwhelming, and high-stakes. Between therapy opt...

Parenting a child with OCD can feel incredibly isolating. Your child is on their own journey with anxiety or OCD, but that doesn’t mean you’...

When you’re raising a child with anxiety or OCD, progress can feel confusing, inconsistent, or even invisible at times. In this episode, we...

When your child is struggling with anxiety or OCD, fear can quietly take over your parenting. Fear of making things worse. Fear of missing s...

One of the hardest parts of raising a child with OCD is figuring out who you’re actually talking to. Is it your child… or is it their OCD pu...

In this episode, we explore why trust is the foundation for helping a child with OCD. When trust is missing, kids shut down, hide their stru...

The holidays can be magical — but for kids with OCD and anxiety, they can also be overwhelming. In this episode, Natasha helps parents prepa...

When your child’s OCD gets loud, it’s so easy to get swept into the panic, the questions, the intensity. But the calmer and more grounded yo...

What happens when the professionals you trust to help your child’s OCD, actually make things worse? Too many parents of kids with OCD are to...

When OCD symptoms fade, it’s natural to feel relief — maybe even believe it’s finally gone. But sometimes, that relief can make us miss the...

As parents, we want to rescue our kids from anxiety and OCD—but the truth is, some things are not within our control. And when we spend our...

Are you trying everything to help your child’s OCD… yet nothing seems to stick? You’re not alone—and it’s not because you’re doing anything...

When your child struggles with OCD, it’s natural to want to ease their distress, but those well-meaning “helping” moments can actually feed...

When your child can’t explain their OCD, it can feel impossible to know how to help. Many kids feel embarrassed, don’t have the words, or ex...

When your child is stuck in an endless cycle of reassurance, it can feel impossible to break free. Reassurance may bring temporary relief, b...

Parents often rely on their usual parenting strategies to help their child with OCD — but those same strategies can actually backfire. In th...

OCD loves to change costumes. One week it’s germs, the next it’s harm or moral worries—and parents are left wondering, “Are we back at squar...

In this podcast episode, I sit down with Dr. Tamar Chansky to talk about the newly revised edition of her classic book, Freeing Your Child f...

OCD can show up much earlier than most people realize — and often in ways parents don’t immediately recognize. For younger kids, compulsions...

Contamination OCD can be easy to spot, but often, it runs much deeper than what you are observing. In this episode, I break down the common...

Moral OCD can be tricky for parents to recognize because it often looks like strong values, deep guilt, or honest confessions. In this episo...

Parenting a child with OCD, anxiety, and ARFID changes you in ways you can’t fully understand until you’re living it. Over the years, I’ve l...

When our child is in distress, it’s natural to want to jump in and fix things. But with OCD, that urge to solve, control, or protect can act...

You’re reading the books, watching the videos, and learning everything you can to help your child with OCD. But your child? They’re shutting...

When you’re raising a child with anxiety or OCD, it’s easy to feel like you’re absorbing all of their fear, stress, and urgency. Their nervo...

When you’re parenting a child with OCD, burnout can sneak in quietly—and then hit hard. You’re doing all the things: managing compulsions, p...

Do you ask your child with OCD a question—about their thoughts, feelings, or fears—only to get “I don’t know” in return? It can be frustrati...

When you’re parenting a child with OCD or anxiety, life can start to feel like one long crisis response. You may find yourself constantly ma...

Traveling with kids who have mental health or special needs can feel overwhelming—but it doesn’t have to be. In this episode, I talk with Ha...

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Cristi Bundukamara—known as Dr. B—the founder of Mentally STRONG and creator of the Raising Mentally ST...

Bedtime shouldn’t feel like a battleground—but for many families raising a child with OCD, nighttime is when the OCD compulsions ramp up and...

Child OCD Therapy is important—but it’s not the whole answer. In this episode, child therapist and OCD parent Natasha Daniels explains why t...

Is your child saying things like: I don’t feel real? Is this a dream? Am I dead? Is this really happening? They may be experiencing deperson...

Confidence can take a major hit when a child is struggling with OCD or anxiety. In this episode, I sit down with teen coach Sharon West to e...

Tiffany Jenkins has been the authentic face of mental health struggles on the internet for years. She offers a candid, raw and often humorou...

Is it autism or OCD? Sometimes the behaviors can look so similar, it’s hard to tell. In this episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I...