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Anxiety doesn’t always look like worry. Sometimes it’s a tummy ache before school, a freeze before a recital, a clingy bedtime routine, or a perfectionist spiral when plans change. We dig into the real-life patterns behind childhood anxiety and share clear ways to support kids with gentle homeopathy, practical routines, and a calmer daily rhythm.

We start by mapping the hidden signs—sleep struggles, irritability, sensory overload, and constant reassurance-seeking—then connect the dots to root drivers like gut health, food intolerances, mineral imbalances, blood sugar swings, and screen overstimulation. From there, we walk through matching remedies to the whole child, not the label: Pulsatilla for tender clinginess, Arsenicum album for orderly perfectionism and fear of sickness, Gelsemium for performance freeze, Calcarea carbonica for caution and resistance to change, Phosphorus for empathic sensitivity, Argentum nitricum for anticipatory worry with GI upset, and Ignatia for grief and emotional conflict.

Alongside remedies, we offer simple supports that actually move the needle: magnesium glycinate, predictable routines, morning sunlight, screen limits, deep pressure inputs like weighted blankets and “heavy work,” and belly breathing that kids will use. We also outline when to seek deeper help—panic attacks, school avoidance, severe sleep disruption in older kids, rapid weight loss, suicidal thoughts—and how therapy, medical care, and targeted testing can work with homeopathy rather than against it. Most of all, we reframe anxiety as a signal, not a flaw, and share compassionate steps to help kids feel safe in their bodies and homes.

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