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Anxiety and Oscar Worthy Performances in Parenting

7 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Hallie Bulkin, July 7, 2025) where two speakers discuss parental anxiety management during child feeding situations. They emphasize that parents may 'project' anxiety, sometimes perform an "Academy Award"—i.e., feign calm—urging parents to 'model calm' despite a 'pit of your stomach.' The speakers note the difficulty when a child's eating affects parental anxiety and mention some research on parents of children with special needs, including ARFID.

You can't project your own anxiety are.
They going to do it onto that child? And that takes your best.
Academy Award performance.
You're going to win an Oscar here. Model calm. Make sure you have a pleasant look on your face even if the pit.
Of your stomach.
Is in knots. Are they going to eat it or not and just exude.
That energy that.
It'S their decision they eat it and man is that hard because that makes.
Your anxiety go.
Up instead of when the food goes in their mouth making the anxiety go down for the parent. So you're right. It's very, very complex.
And there have been some.
A little bit of research around parents.
Who have kids.
With special needs with ARFID et cetera different studies.
Where their level of anxiety.
Is and of course just kind of common sense but of course they have a higher rate of anxiety and anxiety disorders. I should say of course they do. This is really challenging.