Managing Parental Anxiety: Fear, Comparison, and Letting Go of "Not Enough"
Tue, Jan 12
|Cathedral Of The Rockies
(Resilient Parents Support Group) Nearly every parent worries their child is falling behind, or they're not doing enough & comparing ourselves to other families only makes it louder. Join Vashti Summervill to learn what this anxiety is actually telling us, and how to respond to it with clarity
Time & Location
Jan 12, 2027, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Cathedral Of The Rockies, 717 N 11th St #4, Boise, ID 83702, USA
About the event
Worrying about our kids isn't a flaw, it's part of how we protect them. But that worry gets a lot louder when it's measured against other families: the kid on travel sports teams, the friend who's child is loading up on AP classes, the family posting from their third vacation this year. It's easy to see those things and wonder if our own kids (and we ourselves) are falling behind. In this session, Certified Parent Coach Vashti Summervill will help parents tell the difference between anxiety that's doing its job and anxiety that's just noise, amplified by comparison.
Parents will leave with:
A two-part check to run before acting on worry — is there an actual problem here, and is my reaction the right size for it? (Psychologist Lisa Damour's research shows this is exactly where anxiety tips from helpful to unhelpful.)
A clearer sense of what anxiety is for — it's…