| Introduction: Scary, Fun, and Safe | p. xi |
| Childhood Anxiety: Alert, Alarm, Assessment, and All Clear | p. 3 |
| Dr. Spock versus Mr. Spock: Emotion Expressed and Suppressed | p. 131 |
| "What If" versus "What Is": Challenging Anxious Thoughts | p. 162 |
| Notes | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 269 |
| The Second Chicken: Parenting with Empathy, Parenting for Confidence | p. 36 |
| From Monsters under the Bed to Worry Soup: Tackling the Most Common Childhood Anxieties | p. 191 |
| Relaxation and Roughhousing: Anxiety and the Body | p. 62 |
| The Edge: Approach and Avoidance | p. 97 |
| Finding Joy: From Anxiety, Worry, and Fear to Connection and Trust | p. 233 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 253 |
| Bibliography | p. 263 |