{"id":7660,"date":"2020-06-03T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2020-06-03T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:25:06","slug":"calming-anxiety-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/2020\/06\/03\/calming-anxiety-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Calming Anxiety in Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s normal for children to feel worried or anxious at the moment. We\u2019ve all experienced sudden changes in our lives and routines and we\u2019re living with lots of uncertainty about the coming weeks and months. For some young people, the coronavirus pandemic may also worsen or trigger anxieties they were already struggling with.\u00a0 Here are some really simple calming strategies from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetherapistparent.com\/\">The Therapist Parent<\/a> for you to try with your children.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":34,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/wl\\\/harrysmuirps\\\/2020\\\/06\\\/03\\\/calming-anxiety-in-children\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7660 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/2020\/06\/03\/calming-anxiety-in-children\/e072f632-bd25-4361-acef-d12f21fc63bf\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"102\" height=\"150\" 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We\u2019ve all experienced sudden changes in our lives and routines and we\u2019re living with lots of uncertainty about the coming weeks and months. For some young people, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/2020\/06\/03\/calming-anxiety-in-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7685,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/harrysmuirps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}