Helping Children Face Their Fears with Michelle Medlock Adams

How can you help children better address their fears? Today's guest, Michelle Medlock Adams, shares what we should know about how to help kids cope with their fears.   Author of over 100 books with more than 4 million books sold, Michelle Medlock Adams is also a NY Times Bestselling ghostwriter and has won more than 90 industry awards for her own journalistic endeavors. Michelle runs her own children’s book imprint—Wren & Bear Books—as part of End Game Press; serves as the Chairman of the Board of Advisors for Serious Writer, Inc.; and is a much sought-after speaker at professional writing conferences and women’s retreats. She’s celebrating the recent release of “Springtime For Your Spirit” with Andy Clapp, and she’s super excited about the upcoming release of “Our God is Bigger Than That” with Eva Marie Everson and “I Love You to the Sun and Beyond” with Cecil Stokes.   Adams consulted experts when co-authoring Our God is Bigger Than That with Eva Marie Everson to learn insights about helping kids through fear. Rather than dismissing the subject of their worries, psychologists recommend addressing the issue with compassionate listening. Michelle recommends validating feelings and letting your child talk through their fears.   Adams relates how her parents helped her worked through her own fears as a child and how she later applied this compassionate talked through the concerns her children faced. Whether rational or not, fears are best conquered with love. Michelle shares how the harrowing moments of her grandson's medical situation in NICU after birth inspired the title of the children's book, Our God is Bigger Than That.  As parents and grandparents, the more we face our own fears, the better we can help children face theirs. Michelle notes how we can encourage kids to recognize the power of God's presence to strengthen us to overcome all the situations we face. We discuss the impact a children's book can have upon kids, adults, and the bonding in families. Stories with Biblical truth offer immense benefits to bring hope and healing to families.  Adams offers the following tips to help kids overcome fears: Communication Routine Discuss stories with open-ended questions Appropriate humor Relate how you struggled with fear as a child

Connect with Michelle Medlock Adams at michellemedlockadams.com. Check out Wren and Bear Books, a division of End Game Press, at https://www.endgamepress.com/wren-bear-books.

Get a copy of Our God is Bigger Than That at https://www.endgamepress.com/store/p/pre-order-our-god-is-bigger-than-that.

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