The next few weeks I’ll be reviewing various booklets on parenting in light of my preparation to teach overseas.
Julie Lowe. Helping Your Anxious Child: What to Do When Worries Get Big. Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, September 10, 2018. 24 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
How does a parent and an adult minister to an anxious child? This book was helpful and edifying. It is a part of the “minibook” series published by New Growth Press and authored by various counselors from the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation. The author Julie Lowe is a faculty in the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation has written articles and other resources on biblical counseling concerning ministering to children and parenting. This particular book is an excellent resource for Biblical and Pastoral Counselors to give parents who are burdened to minister to their worrying child.
The introduction up with nuances to not every child’s personality is different but nevertheless we should evaluate how serious a child’s worries are from the diagnostic question of how much have their fear and anxiety hinder their day to day life. I appreciate the author talking about the wrong ways a child can cope with fear in ways that are not healthy or worst, causes more problems. I thought about how even as adults we can do the same thing too but in complex forms; this shows how important it is to shepherd a child through their worries and anxieties. While she didn’t use the term “security blanket” we got to watch out for “security blanket” responses to fears. After the introduction there’s a section on “Parental comfort versus God’s comfort” followed by “Giving Hope: What Message Do they hear?” and it ends with thirteen truths from Scripture to Comfort Your Anxious Child.”
This was immensely edifying. It was also helpful as a parent to read this. I think one shouldn’t judge this booklet based upon its size: It definitely was powerful with the economy of words and pages it was limited to. Maybe that’s something we can also learn from biblical counseling booklets like this work. I recommend this.
The Domain for Truth 
Must be out of print. But the kindle edition is available
I read an electronic copy
Saw that and got it for my kindle app
Thanks. Parents need all the resources we can get.
Sounds good. I will pass this on to a mom who is dealing with this very issue. Thanks for posting it. 🙂👍
Wow awesome to hear that; praying for the mom and other moms and dads working through this
Sounds like a great resource!
Thanks RG! I hope your Friday went well!
It did! I hope yours did as well!
Thanks for this review of a helpful resource. Kids have a lot of pressures these days. I imagine the peer pressures are much greater today than when I was a kid because of the social media aspect. And so many more families are split up because of divorce.
I agree I think the peer pressure is greater today; at least when I was a kid once I got home the pressure is gone; imagine having a device and cyber bullying continue on after school and weekend! How did your shift go on Friday?
RE: Friday
Pretty busy yesterday, but the C shift guy pulled some orders for me last night so the rest of the weekend will be decent. How did your Friday go?
CCEF has slot of good counseling material.
Gotcha I need to use their resources more!
Great to hear that this booklet is so good, Pastor Jim. As a former teacher, the subject of child welfare is very high on my list of important things.
I’ll let my daughter know about this as she is very knowledgeable about child ministry materials and I think this might be a great addition to her collection of teaching materials.
I think kids have as much reason to be anxious today as they’ve ever been. It sounds like this could be very helpful for many young people.
I think it is helpful for young people! I also like the booklet making the point to not lie to kids and send mix messages that there’s nothing of concerns while there are also things of concerns in our times. Good point!!!
Thank you for review.
You are welcome Maw Maw!!! I appreciate the support
This sounds like a good parenting resource
Sounds like every parent need to read this
I read a few counseling booklets from the CCEF series
Doesn’t seem easy to find a physical copy
You got a lot of good book reviews on here