Chicken Little the Sky Isn't Falling

Erica Komisar's 2023 book arguing that parental anxiety is being transmitted to children — and that well-meaning protective parenting is producing the anxiety epidemic in children — with a framework for raising resilient rather than anxious children.

Provides the psychoanalytic case for how parental behavior (specifically, anxious parenting, overprotection, and failure to tolerate children's distress) creates and amplifies child anxiety — making parents themselves the primary locus of intervention for the children's mental health crisis.