From the bestselling author of Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice, an authoritative guide to helping your child through moments of anxiety and fear

While serious anxiety affects 1 in 5 children and teens, virtually every child has anxious moments and feelings of worry or dread. Fear of bees, robbers, lightning storms, worries about failing and being rejected, panic about sleeping alone—kids and teens experience all this and more. Friendly and authoritative, Sarah Chana Radcliffe helps parents understand the difference between “normal” and more serious anxiety, so that parents know when professional help is required and when home treatment is appropriate. With plenty of proven and sensible advice, The Fear Fix provides:

• strategies to help your kids through all the small and large anxious moments that they will inevitably encounter
• things you can say and do in the moment to help your child negotiate feelings of fear
• fear-calming activities and exercises your child can use independently
• mind-body strategies to calm fear in the moment and help heal fear at its source

SARAH CHANA RADCLIFFE holds a master’s of education inpsychology and is a registered member of the College of Psychologists ofOntario. She has a private practice in marital, family and individualcounselling and has been conducting parenting workshops, lectures and seminarslocally and internationally for more than 25 years. She was a coordinator andparent educator for the Learning Disabilities Clinic of the Toronto WellesleyHospital for many years and was also a researcher in developmental psychology atthe Metropolitan Toronto School Board and at the Institute of Child Study, U ofT. Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice grew out of amuch-requested parenting manual she distributed to clients and audiences. Shehas written five books on Jewish family life, as well as numerous periodicalarticles, and appears regularly in the broadcast media as a parenting expert.Sarah Chana Radcliffe lives in Toronto with her husband and six children.

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