It is understandable that parents don’t want to see a child in distress; however, it is important not to fall into the traps of safety behaviors such as avoidance, which can make a child’s anxiety worse in the long term (Wells, 1997).
Sometimes parents can unintentionally feed into children’s safety behaviors. It is understandable that parents don’t want to see a child in distress; however, it is important not to fall into the traps of safety behaviors such as avoidance, which can make a child’s anxiety worse in the long term (Wells, 1997).