Helping Your Children Cope With Stress
2008 September 29 by: Scott
As another school year begins, childhood stress is often reported as a common factor in creating emotional dramas around the home. ScottCounseling would like to recognize author Carol Denbow, child development specialist and author of numerous parenting articles,as one who has numerous positive solutions for this topic of concern shared by many parents.
Childhood Stress
Compared to our lives as adults, it may seem as if children don’t have any stress at all.
But children can experience stress just as much or more than adults. They may not show outward signs of stress because children experience stress in different forms. It is mportant to identify and help you children cope with the stressors in heir lives on a aily basis. hen children are asked what causes them stress, the most common answers are chool, homework, grades, family, friends, peer pressure, and being teased. Some hildren respond to stress by injuring themselves, over-eating, losing their temper, or eing silent. Others, in a healthier effort of coping, might play, listen to music, watch TV, lay video games, cry, or talk to their parents. It’s crucial to your child’s mental and physical health that they utilize positive means of relieving stress.
Parents need to watch and be aware of their children’s stresses and help them deal with them. Otherwise, children may practice unhealthy ways to cope. When parents teach their children the right ways to cope with stress, they are teaching them habits the children will use to better cope with stress as adults.
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