Chapter 20
Ten Tips to Help Your Kids Cope with Stress and Change
IN THIS CHAPTER
Discovering ways to calm your worries
Helping your children to express themselves
Learning to support your children to cope with stress and change
Studies show that teens and children are more stressed today than ever. Whether it’s peer pressure, the stress from their highly scheduled lives, schoolwork, world events, or parental worries, kids today greatly benefit from learning the positive coping skills that will help them cultivate resilience. In this chapter, I offer you brief ways that you can support your children to better cope with stress and change. (For more on building family resilience, see Chapter 19.)
Taking a Pause and Calming the Worry
It’s normal and natural to want to protect your children from harm. The problem is that your anxiety may rub off on them, causing them to feel more anxious about their world and the future. Constant worry doesn’t facilitate developing a more resilient mindset, or a belief that a positive outcome is possible when challenges are reckoned with. For your children to learn how to stay calm and confident, you have to model the behavior for them and then regulate ...
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