“The angry-anxious child: Walking on eggshells, prickly to the touch, the angry anxious child is as much in need of your help as he is insistent that he isn’t. He doesn’t want to be in the situation he’s in—the vulnerability he feels is unacceptable to him. When you try to help, he may feel at first as if you are shining a light on his worst attribute. Your job as a parent of an angry-anxious child is to help him understand that even very successful people have anxiety. You’ll learn to reassure him that anxiety is not his fault, and that there are straightforward ways to take charge of it so it doesn’t interfere with his life or define him. The”