[ReachOut.com] > Mother. I love being a mum. Love it, love it, love it. My children are Thomas, who is 16, and Chloe, who is 14. > Father. The best thing about being a dad is watching your children grow up and becoming, you know, young adults. It's just been a really inspirational time I think. It’s been great. With Chloe and anxiety, it started basically, probably, at preschool. We'd have to stand in line with her and wait until school and she cry and so forth. So it's been a battle for the last nine years. You know, there's that you don't even want to look in the rear-vision mirror when you're driving away. It's really tough. > Mother. Watching Chloe go through what she goes through and me being her mum I just want to protect her; it's my first instinct. > Father. We've tried everything. It's in here, and it's not something that you can put a bandaid on, you know. It's not like that you know just something that we have to deal with day-to-day. I like to fix everything and for me, not being able to fix it is so hard. Children's mental health it's a bit of a taboo so to speak, you know, no one wants to talk about it but it's something that needs to be talked about. I felt like no one else was going through what we were going through,and I didn't think there was support out there for me. I thought it was something that I had to just go through on my own. > Mother. Having something that's available 24 hours a day - when things start to get to me, it's in the middle of the night. To get online and say it's finally quiet time, and the kids are asleep - that's fantastic. > Father. So my advice to parents going through similar issues would be to not be afraid to ask questions. Don't take the first solution that's given to you because it might not be the best one. The thing I like about ReachOut is that they've looked at other options so they've been doing a youth program for a long time but now they've broadened it to a parents program. What it means for parents is that they'll have a forum, they'll have somewhere to ask questions. Asking for help is a great thing it's so empowering when somebody actually can give you some help. What we can do is just be empathetic to the parents and just say you know you've got someone that talk to, you've got a voice. It's nice to have a voice. [ReachOut.com]