Every parent has bad days when they feel like everyone is a better parent than they are. The kids won’t stop fighting.Your 6-year-old says, “I hate you.”No one will come to the dinner table.Your teenager’s new friends give you the shivers.Your father says you need to have more strict discipline.Everyone seems to have an opinion Read More
Category: Stress Management
Self Care Tips For New Parents
If you are a new parent, you are probably experiencing a lot of stress. It’s normal to be exhausted much of the time. If you never take time to rest, relax and recharge, parenthood can become a trap that leaves you feeling irritable, angry and overwhelmed. Here are seven simple steps to reduce your stress. Read More
The Cool Parent
When you feel yourself losing your “cool” with your children, try some of these ideas. Stress Meter:Keep an eye on your stress level and when it starts to go up, take action! Taking care of yourself isn’t selfish – it’s smart. STOP:Take a moment to get your emotions under control. You can’t parent the way Read More
Music for Relaxation
While there isn’t much research out there about music and children and mood, who among us hasn’t used music to alter our own mood? I bet you could list the following with very little hesitation… What is a song you would listen to if you wanted to: And you probably know instinctively that there is Read More
Relaxation Space
There are different types of Guided Imagination techniques. Sometimes, all these techniques are lumped together and called “visualization”. But the term visualization can sometimes cause people to feel stress! Instead, think of this relaxation technique as a way to create a mental “relaxation space”. Guided Imagination/Visualization = Relaxation Space Relaxation Space You might use “Relaxation Read More
Mental Rehearsal
Humans are unique; we can have physical and mental stress by worrying about an event that has not yet occurred.This type of worry is called “anticipatory stress” and can plague children starting at a very young age. The physiological consequences of this type of stress, when chronic and/or extreme, can be detrimental to our children’s Read More