title: The Worry Clock: A Parent&rsquo;s Guide to Worrying Smarter about The Real Dangers to Your Child
author: Natalia E. Pane M.A.
description: Natalia Pane, M.A., M.B.A, combined her love of data and research with her love of being a mom. She is currently the Vice President for Research Operations at Child Trends, an organization devoted to using research to improve the lives and well-being of children and youth. For fifteen years, Natalia worked with leaders within the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services on federal data collection, analysis, and use to improve programs and policies. She served as the Executive Director of the National Assessment for Educational Progress Education Statistics Services Center and trained thousands of people on how to use data better to achieve their missions. Now she uses that statistical knowledge and looks at it from a whole new perspectivea mom who wants to continuously become a better mom. She wrote this book to start a discussion about how we can use data more to answer questions that matter to parents. She readily admits that she does not have all the answers; this book is just a beginning. If you have better research, better data, better research-based suggestions on what to do, she wants to hear from you.
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  [Cover](NH33186-0001.xhtml#cvi)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Contents](NH33186-0003.xhtml#toc)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Foreword](NH33186-0004.xhtml#ch01)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Introduction](NH33186-0005.xhtml#ch02)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [CHAPTER 1: The Worry Trick](NH33186-0006.xhtml#ch03)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Worry: An Uninvited Guest](NH33186-0006.xhtml#ah0301)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [You CAN Change Your Worry Habit](NH33186-0006.xhtml#bh0301)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [What Is the Worry Trick?](NH33186-0006.xhtml#ah0302)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Danger or Discomfort?](NH33186-0006.xhtml#bh0302)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Fear of the Unknown](NH33186-0006.xhtml#bh0303)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Can You Predict the Future?](NH33186-0006.xhtml#ah0303)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [How Worrying Backfires on You](NH33186-0006.xhtml#bh0304)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Worry Always Gets the Last Word!](NH33186-0006.xhtml#bh0305)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Meet the Worriers](NH33186-0006.xhtml#ah0304)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Case 1: Scott](NH33186-0006.xhtml#bh0306)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [A Chronic Worrier](NH33186-0006.xhtml#ch0301)