Last week we had a breakthrough with our anxious girl. She persevered and overcame the anxiety, went to school and came home to announce that she had great day. I jumped and cried and praised the L--d! She was so proud of herself. I was so proud of her!
Then there are days like today...
I knew it would be a struggle, she was anxious before going to sleep last night. Not about your typical 10 yr. old anxieties, but about doing something at school and not getting in trouble ( her conscience), then about whether or not she went to the right number group, because she forgot which number her teacher assigned. Then she was anxious about what would happen if she did get in trouble... Seriously this all occurred before 9:00p.m. She finally agreed to go to bed and try to sleep and leave further discussion for in the morning. I really wanted that to be the end of it, but I should have known better. She woke up this morning, first thing she said was " I am still worried"; took a shower, sat down for breakfast and couldn't eat. 10 minutes later she was getting sick in the bathroom and crying, begging to not go to school. We got her in the car, on the way and all I can do is hope and pray that she makes it all day. So here we are, I am back to searching for ideas to help with her anxiety, and reading my anxiety Bible, "Freeing Your Child From Anxiety", by Tamar Chansky. As for now, tonight we will go to bed earlier, and pray that tomorrow is better.
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