"Children with anxiety shouldn't be allowed to avoid situations they find challenging"
"Giving a child lots of help is just another way of helping them to avoid"
Although I agree in part in with both of those statements, help is supposed to be about teaching the child the skills so they can cope.
Those kind of statements are exactly what LA and schools want to hear, as an excuse NOT to give a child the help they need to enable teaching of skills.
What are you thoughts?