Parenting
How to Shield Children From Adult Stress
Your stress is real. Work, relationships, money, health—adult worries are constant. Children sense your stress and can absorb it. Shielding them doesn...
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Parenting
How to Manage Your Own Anger as a Parent
Parenting is triggering. A child who won't listen, a situation that reminds you of your own childhood, stress from work, exhaustion—all of these can i...
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Family Life
Managing Illness in the Family Without Panic
A sick child can trigger parental anxiety and concern, even when the illness is minor. Yet most childhood illnesses are self-limited and resolve withi...
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Family Life
How Financial Stress Affects Children Without Their Knowledge
Financial stress affects parents deeply, and children absorb this stress even when not directly aware of financial problems. When parents are anxious...
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Family Life
How Children Perceive the Emotional Climate at Home
Children are emotional sponges. They absorb the unspoken atmosphere of their homes as readily as they absorb language. Whether the overall feeling is...
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Emotions
Parental Stress and Its Impact on the Child
You might think your stress is invisible to your child, contained within your own mind and body. In reality, parental stress seeps into every interact...
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Daycare
How Daycare Affects Working Parents' Stress Levels
Working parents often experience significant stress related to childcare—worry about their child's wellbeing, logistics of coordinating care, guilt ab...
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