Your Kid Doesn't Feel Unsafe When You're Not In The Room (Unless You've Created An Environment Of Fear)

Subscribe if you love the DPM show! https://anchor.fm/drpsychmomshow/subscribe and you'll get all my awesome bonus episodes; the most recent one explores the effects of getting married when you're "young and dumb"! For my secret Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/becomesupporter/DrPsychMom/ For coaching from DPM, visit https://www.drpsychmom.com/coaching/ For therapy, contact us at www.bestlifebehavioralhealth.com Follow me on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@therealdrpsychmom and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqLm4xRaUeroBodFc-h4XDQ I saw this meme on Instagram with the words "Lying down with your kids until they fall asleep is not a bad habit. Before we know it, there will be closed doors and independence, and then we will pine for the days when they needed to feel our hand on their back before they felt safe enough to drift to sleep"- Kristen Thompson. I am going to dissect this hypervigilant safety porn for you and relate it to why kids have higher rates of anxiety than ever before (About 11.6% of kids had anxiety in 2012, up 20% from 2007. But during the pandemic, those numbers nearly doubled, such that 20.5% of youth worldwide now struggle with anxiety symptoms, according to a meta-analysis of 29 studies reported in JAMA Pediatrics (Vol. 175, No. 11, 2021).)