Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("Does FEAR Control YOU?👹" by Mark Evans DM, Aug 11, 2024) in which a parent discusses being scared or nervous with their child. The speaker names simple coping approaches — verbalizing feelings at dinner, normalizing nervousness for kids, and 'just keep moving' — and frames the central question: does fear control you or do you control fear?
Does Daddy ever get scared and nervous? Sometimes. What do I do when I get scared and nervous besides bite my fingernails? Just talk. We sit at dinner and we talk about, like, dad's nervous. Dad, you don't look nervous. Yeah. Remember, your kids don't know what we're dealing with. So, like, prior to this, like, here's how I'm feeling. Here's what I'm doing. What do we do when we get nervous, though? We just keep moving. Right? We just got to keep going. Yeah. So, like, what we're talking about is, does fear control you or you control fear?
