Carol Denbow is a ScottCounseling contributing author.  Her article concentrates on the understanding and contributing factors that lead to and reduce stress in parenting.  Mental health experts often note the importance of spending time to discover what “triggers” our levels of stress. 

They also site the importance of becoming solution-ortineted in finding stress reduction strategies that make our parenting lives more enjoyable.  This article focuses on some of those triggers and strategies that may reduce your stress.

Understanding and Relieving Parental Stress

While parenting is a joyful, noble, and fulfilling experience, it can also bring stressful challenges into your daily life. Recent studies have shown that parents have significantly higher levels of stress and depression than people without children.
Surprisingly, those parents who showed more symptoms of stress and depression were parents of adult children still living at home, parents of adult children living away from home, and parents who do not have custody of their minor children.  Those who showed the least stress and depression symptoms were parents living with their minor biological children, their minor adopted children, and those parents living with their minor stepchildren.

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