Coping with Holiday Stress, Depression, and Grieving
Holiday stress is fast becoming as frequent a topic as holiday shopping. Just type “holiday stress” into any search engine on the Internet, and you get approximately 10,000 hits for information on the topic. Parents are especially vulnerable candidates, as their stress is compounded by their children’s stress around the holidays.
Just as students often have final examinations, indecision as to how to spend their holiday vacations and with whom, and hoping that Santa, or someone, is going to find a way to fill that Christmas list, parents have to minister to their children’s needs and deal with their own holiday stressors simultaneously.
How to Stay Organized and Sane This Holiday Season
Like many people throughout the country, you may have a love-hate relationship with the holidays. You love being able to visit with friends and family but you may not enjoy having your home life in an upheaval. There are parties to attend, shopping to get done and a house to decorate. When are you going to find the time for everything? The following tips will help you learn how to stay organized and sane this holiday season. Let’s get started!
First and foremost, ensure you get enough rest throughout the holidays. If you’re not sleeping properly, you could become sleep deprived which will add to your stress level. Rather than staying late at holiday parties, it would be better to leave early so you can get your rest.
Stress-Busting Tips for Teens
Stress itself is a person’s reaction to life changes, and there is hardly a time in one’s life with more changes than the teen years! Added on to all these life changes is the fact that there is a lot going on in the life of the average teen – concerns about appearance, extracurricular activities, friends, school projects, social events, and so forth can all converge on teens at once. Here are some tips for parents to share with their teens.
Deep Breathing Really? Just breathing deeply makes everything go away? Not exactly! But deliberate, slow, deep breathing exercises can significantly increase your body’s coping mechanisms, sources say. This is why deep breathing is so often a component of meditation.
How to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence
We often hear about boosting our IQ, but what about emotional intelligence? Is it important to our wellbeing? What will it do for you in your life?
What Is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional intelligence speaks to the way that you handle… Continue reading
Helping Kids Deal with Parents’ Unemployment
Unemployment can be scary for adults who are going through it. What about your children? They may not know the particulars but they know that something is not right anymore. Here are constructive ways to help your kids deal with… Continue reading
Control your Anger, Don’t let it Control You
Anger can be a paralyzing and debilitating condition. But it can be a terrifying and degrading experience for your child if you’re taking your anger out on them. Physical and verbal abuse of a child can have lasting and lethal… Continue reading
Working Mother Advice – How to Manage Your Kids' After-School Activities
Working mothers have to do double duty. They work a 9-to-5 job (or some other shift); then they get home and have to take care of duties there. For many working moms this means taxiing their children around hither and yon. If you feel like you’re running around all of the time, you may be ready to learn how to manage your kids’ after-school activities better.
Parents with only one child can usually handle their children’s extracurricular activities. It’s when you have two or more children that things can get a little dicey. You may find it difficult to keep up with everything your children do as well as taking care of the home.
Secrets of an Organized Mom
Stressed out mothers and many others want to know the secrets of being an organized mom. They may wonder if being organized as a mother with children at home is even possible. Rest assured, moms – it is possible to have an organized home and a life which runs smoothly – at least some of the time.
Top Tips to Avoid the Winter Blues for Stay-at-Home Parents
How many new parents would love nothing more than to stay at home with their newborn? While many people may have the ability to do so for the first month or so, maternity leave soon runs out and it’s back to work they go. For the lucky ones who are able to remain at home, winter can often be a hard time. If this applies to you, following some of these tips may help you make it through to springtime and warmer weather without feeling low.
It’s not unusual for people to be affected by the changing seasons. During the spring and summer when the sun is shining and temperatures are warm, people are generally happier and more active. As the temperatures drop and the clock is turned back, many people – particularly stay-at-home parents – start experiencing the winter blues or something more serious called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
Stress Research Sounds Health Alarms for Children
Does it feel like your “stress temperature” has gone up around ten degrees the last few years? According to the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey, your kids are feeling it too. The new survey details the impact of… Continue reading
