how to avoid stress

Childhood can be a time of extreme emotional stress. In their first 18 years of life children are often exposed to many stressful situations – going to school, making friends, rejection, dating, puberty, trying to adjust to impending adulthood. But, you can help your child of any age to avoid stress.

Stress can be recognized by:-
* Frequently tired
* Moody for no reason
* Unable to concentrate
* Unable to sleep
* Fearful, but doesn’t know why
* Hungry all the time
* Not hungry at all
* Less enthusiastic than normal

Stress at home:-
In most cases,It is often seen that children are getting stress from their home:-

Are you divorced?
Do you and the child’s father get along?
Or do you fight in front of him or her?
Are you abusing alcohol or drugs?


Counseling:-
Sometimes the only way to avoid stress is to seek counselling. Some children have deep seeded fears, which they may not talk to you about and nothing you do or say will help relieve these fears. In cases such as this, try to get them into counselling. It may take a while and you may need to visit several counsellors before they find one they feel comfortable enough with to open up and tell them what is really bothering them. The counsellor will be able to find the root of the problem and then teach the child techniques to deal with it, thus avoiding stressing situations in the future.
But the best counseling starts at home.
You should spend your time with your children
You should talk to them about how they spent their day.
What are the problems they are facing in their schools or with friends,etc

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