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Navigating Anxiety, with Colleen Kessler [Episode 92]
The sisters are joined by Colleen Kessler of Raising Lifelong Learners to talk about navigating anxiety with our kids.
They discuss how to handle media, sleep issues and how to manage your own anxious feelings. Cait, Kara and Colleen also talk about homeschooling through a period of intense anxiety.
Plus, Colleen shares her new anxiety tool kit card deck. Pour yourself a tea or coffee and settle in!
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LISTEN to all of colleen’s tips and tricks for navigating anxiety here:

LINKS FROM THE navigating anxiety EPISODE:
- Never Board Learning
- Anxiety resources | Colleen Kessler, Raising Lifelong Learners
- Anxiety-Free Kids by Bonnie Zucker
- Bathtime pipes
- Beeswax candle kit
- Big Bubble Recipe | My Little Poppies
- Books for Kids Who Worry | Raising Lifelong Learners
- COVID-19 Unit Study | The Waldock Way
- COVID-19 resources on Home Science Tools
- COVID-19 documentary on CuriosityStream
- Dehydrated marshmallows
- Gameschooling: Learning Through Play {Episode 11}
- Guide to Gameschooling: Learning Through Play
- Gameschooling by Subject {Episode 54}
- Homeschooling Gifted and Quirky Kids with Colleen Kessler {Episode 32}
- If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
- Lovely War by Julie Berry
- Make Your Worrier a Warrior by Dan Peters (two-book series)
- Mental Health Homeschool Schedule | My Little Poppies
- Ninja Line
- Origami Kit
- Rope ladder
- Slackline
- Something Bad Happened by Dawn Huebner
- Super Simple Homeschool Schedule | My Little Poppies
- Swing
- The Anxiety Toolkit | Raising Lifelong Learners
- The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
- The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
- The Out of Sync Child Has Fun by
- The Power of Stories in Hard Times {Episode 91}
- Tiger King
- Window painting kit
- You probably should have a hot chocolate party ASAP | Kara S. Anderson
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