Brave Together: A Guide to Helping Kids Face Fear and Build Confidence is the essential guide for parents raising anxious, sensitive, or worry-prone children. In a world filled with pressure, uncertainty, and overwhelming emotions, many kids struggle quietly, and many parents wonder how to truly help. If your child has big feelings, frequent fears, or intense reactions to seemingly small things, you’re not alone. Whether it shows up as bedtime battles, school refusal, social anxiety, meltdowns over transitions, or a constant stream of “what-ifs,” worry can shape your child’s daily experience—and leave you feeling helpless, frustrated, or unsure of what to say or do. In Brave Together , author Lissy Bauer offers parents a compassionate and practical new way to understand childhood worry, not as something to eliminate, but as something to explore. Worry is not a flaw or a failure; it’s a signal that your child needs support. This book doesn’t offer quick fixes or rigid rules. Instead, it provides a gentle, thoughtful roadmap for helping your child build real confidence, emotional strength, and a more empowered relationship with fear. Through relatable stories, easy-to-understand neuroscience, and practical tools you can use right away, you’ll learn how to: Understand the roots of anxiety in children and why it often looks like defiance, distraction, or drama - Support a highly sensitive or anxious child without resorting to lectures, rewards, or endless reassurance - Create a worry-safe home that feels emotionally secure, not just physically safe - Recognize the signs of hidden anxiety in kids, from perfectionism to stomachaches - Use co-regulation to help your child calm down and build their own inner tools over time - Talk to your child about their brain and body in ways that build self-awareness and reduce shame - Replace common anxiety-triggering phrases (“You’re fine,” “There’s nothing to worry about”) with language that actually helps - Build simple, daily routines and rituals that lower stress and increase connection - Know when to lean in, when to set boundaries, and when to seek additional support from schools or professionals Whether you’re parenting a sensitive preschooler who cries at drop-off, an elementary-aged child who panics over tests or social situations, or a tween or teen who hides their anxiety behind irritability or avoidance, Brave Together will help you meet your child where they are and walk with them toward calm, courage, and confidence. This is not a book about eliminating worry, it’s about helping your child learn how to work with it, not against it. With clarity, compassion, and zero judgment, Lissy Bauer gives parents the tools they need to stop reacting to behavior and start responding to the deeper needs underneath it. If you're searching for an anxiety book for parents, tools to help a worried child, or a gentle but practical guide to parenting anxious or highly sensitive kids, this is the book you’ve been looking for. Anxiety doesn't mean something is wrong with your child. It means something is asking to be understood. If your child is sensitive, anxious, or frequently overwhelmed by transitions, separation, or "small" things that feel big, you're not alone. In today's fast-paced, pressure-heavy world, more children than ever are struggling with emotional regulation, social fears, and intrusive worry. And many well-meaning parents are left wondering how to truly help without making things worse. Brave Together is the breakthrough parenting guide every caregiver of an anxious or sensitive child needs. Rooted in child psychology, neuroscience, and attachment-based practices, this book offers a compassionate, practical approach to helping your child face fear and build confidence—without shutting down their feelings or relying on behavior charts and quick fixes. Inside, you'll learn: Why anxiety in kids often shows up as meltdowns, avoidance, perfectionism, or resistance - The neuroscience of the "anxious brain" and what's actually happening during big reactions - How to use co-regulation to calm your child without dismissing their feelings - Proven parenting strategies to support highly sensitive children and kids with hidden anxiety - What to say (and what not to say) when your child spirals into fear, doubt, or self-criticism - How to create emotionally safe home environments that build long-term resilience - Everyday routines and rituals that help children develop emotional intelligence and trust Whether your child is three or thirteen, this book gives you the tools to parent through anxiety with insight, empathy, and strength. If you've been searching for: ✔️ How to help a child with anxiety without using rewards or punishments ✔️ Parenting books for highly sensitive children ✔️ Scripts for talking to kids about fear and worry ✔️ Practical ways to build kids' emotional resilience ✔️ Calm-down tools that actually work ... Brave