Childhood overthinking is quietly affecting sleep, friendships, learning and family life — and reassurance alone makes it worse. What's really happening in your child's brain, and what actually helps. It starts small. A question before bed. Then the same question again. Then again, twenty minutes later, even after you've answered it twice. You watch your child's face — not naughty, not defiant — just genuinely unable to let it go. Their brain is stuck, and neither of you knows how to unstick it. This is what childhood overthinking looks like from the inside of a family. And it is happening in more homes than most parents realise. The Overthinking Epidemic Nobody Is Talking About Childhood anxiety and overthinking have been rising steadily for years — and it accelerated sharply after the disruptions of the early 2020s. Yet most conversations about children's mental health still focus on the dramatic end of the spectrum: panic attacks, school refusal, clinical dia...