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Pathway Systems Playing with Anxiety by Reid Wilson Lynn Lyons
Casey the fourteen year old narrator knows just what its like to be miserable. It started slowly: backing away from birthday parties avoiding the Fourth of July fireworks leaving before the end of movies. By second grade stomach aches and tantrums before school seemed as common as strawberry jelly on toast. Then just before her fourth grade chorus concertas her mom was braiding her hairCasey puked. No concert. No postconcert ice cream with her friends. Only a night filled with tears. Everything changed that next morning. Casey and her mom had had enough! The days of being timid were over. They got mad and decided then and there to solve the puzzle called worry. Casey expresses a serious commitment to the task but couples it with feisty irreverent humor as she releases a gaggle of characters and their stories. The narrative offers cautious kids (and their sometimes worried often frustrated parents) a realistic guide for stepping into the new and scary experiments that arrive at each developmental stage right up through the teen years. Will her frightful encounter with the snarling dog keep her forever from walking to the bus stop or the ominous storm clouds end her fun at the water park? Will an asparagusdog with cheese get her into the clubhousebuilding project? Can you really talk to your worry like its a squirrel? Will Lindseys coaching to loosen up and scream actually help her handle the scarybutawesome oneminute and fiftytwo second Yankee Cannonball roller coaster? In PLAYING WITH ANXIETY: CASEYS GUIDE FOR TEENS AND KIDS the companion book to Reid Wilson and Lynn Lyons parenting book ANXIOUS KIDS ANXIOUS PARENTS: 7 WAYS TO STOP THE WORRY CYCLE AND RAISE COURAGEOUS & INDEPENDENT CHILDREN (HCI Books 2013) Casey includes stories of everyday encountersimagining warm chocolate chip cookies coming out of the oven brother Elliots MARSH MAN comic bookas well as surprising featsthe accidental discovery of Postit Notes Benjamins uncle Steves jump from the helicopter blind Eric Weihenmayers climb of the Seven Summitsto show the reader how to face the trials of the middle years.show more