How to Handle Child Stress

Stress in children can occur at any age, even early on, because in the womb. When the mother containing stress, including a fetus in the womb, I feel it. Fetal heart rate becomes irregular, so that the supply of oxygen and nutrients is reduced. When age, especially during adolescence, a number of reasons can trigger stress in children, including:

Food

The lack of nutrients can cause the baby's growth is not ideal, and nutrients the body needs are not met, created stress. Similarly, the consumption of fast food is excessive, because these foods contain too much sugar in the body and nutrition minimum.

Lack of sleep

Playing or watching too much television is the lack of sleeping children. For children who were enrolled, the number of homework, extracurricular activities or courses that make children too early and had to spend the time to complete their work so many hours of sleep is reduced. Lack of sleep can cause the child's mind and emotions become unstable and susceptible to stress.

The family environment

The arguments of a parent or a divorce can cause fear in children. This makes sense, because the child desperately love the people around him, especially his parents make him feel safe and protected.

Parenting the parents

In general, patterns of parenting is one of three types. First of all, where parents are authoritarian authoritarian, do not give children the freedom and the forces of the needs of a child whose parents and even to persecute their children. Second, the permissive parent is good to exempt their children even if the child is able to make the right decisions and let the mistakes of your child. Third, authoritative parents to clearly define the consequences of any action, they do not inhibit the child does not absolve you too, but continued to pay attention to children and trying to establish an independent child. This prestigious model is more suitable for the design of children personality. Stress can occur in children, if you feel unable to request parents'
or because he had suffered adverse consequences as a result of a wrong decision.

Pressure from friends

In social status, the child will not be different from other children in your group. Unlike a child, perhaps due to physical or cause teasing by his friends. You can also make a child feel stressed because they feel they can not be accepted by their peers.

Symptoms of stress

A child who is stressed can be identified by observing its behavior. Psychosomatic reactions, including gastrointestinal problems, headaches, fatigue, sleep disturbances and problems during the waste water, perhaps a sign that something was wrong. Other signs such as frequent crying, happy to be alone, fussy, not wanting to go to school somewhere, which makes it difficult to school or the neighborhood playground, school failure. Although stress can also lead to physical illness in children, such as dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, paralysis due to depression or other illnesses.

If a child has pain in one time and after consultation with the doctor can not find the exact cause, it would not hurt if you ask for help from a psychologist, because the disease can be caused by viruses, bacteria or damage body, but the minds of children who are stressed.

Helping Children Experience Stress

As a human capacity being inexperienced and the brain is not optimum, a child is not able to find solutions of the stress he suffered as a need to get help from an adult to be able to overcome the difficulties they experienced stress is not prolonged.

If there is an indication of your child is stressed, avoid too great to feel the panic, because if you panic, you can also suffer from stress and can not help your child. What you can do to help your child:

Better Parenting

If you have a tendency to authoritarian or vice verse indulgence, you should change your parenting style so that your child does not feel burdened by excessive demands. However, clear rules, why the rule is given and the consequences when rules are violated. Do not forget to give

praise when your child to be positive, but given a reprimand or discipline a child if the offense as well as an explanation of why the discipline is given, not because their parents hate their children .

Do not make excessive demands

Parents want their children to achieve their best, but do not set goals that can only be achieved by the child. Do not also criticize or compare a child with another. Accept a child with all the advantages and disadvantages. If a child does not meet the requirements you provide, do not punish or tease, but to help children become better in the future. Missing experienced by the child does not mean that now it can not be better, and that does not mean the end of everything.

Create intimacy with a child and open communication

The proximity of parents with children to help a child open to parents and parents are free to do as a place to unwind. Children may say they have experienced unpleasant events while in school or outside the home. Parents can be like a man with more experience provides a good solution for a child or take the necessary measures so that no unpleasant incident can be avoided. This is very good compared to if the child says the problem with peers or others who are not exactly who can provide advice that makes it worse.

Create a harmonious family

Father, a harmonious relationship, proximity to siblings and other family members as the child feel comfortable at home, helping to avoid adverse interactions that can cause various problems that can stress a child. In addition, family life can avoid the fighting, although the divorce, which will destabilize the emotions of children.

Form an independent child

A child with time to become independent because it is not possible, parents are constantly monitored. So help a child with a train to take the necessary decisions. For example, when a child asks whether an action may be taken or not to take the child to discuss what the good things and bad things will happen if the children do. This can help a child if one day it must make decisions without parental assistance. Children will also become more independent could solve the problem and face when you feel uncomfortable, that prevent the child is experiencing stress.

Provide sufficient flexibility for children

For things that are not very principle, provide flexibility in children. For example in the provision of leisure activities or courses that follow. Allow children to channel his hobby, so that children do not feel confined and enjoy the activities.

The supply of healthy foods, getting enough sleep

Since stress can affect children nutritional intake, and serve nutritious food for you, get used to fast food, soft drinks or snacks that are nutritious. Also familiarize the child to eat regularly and on time. Meanwhile, to help children get enough sleep, help your child to have a good time to decide when to play, when for other tasks and schedules so children have time to nap and not have to sleep late at night to do their job.

that need attention and affection of parents and children can avoid stress. So continue to support, educate and encourage your child so you can enjoy your day with good humor.




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