Children And Stress
How To Help A Child With Stress?
If you think that you can ever frame a perfect set of
rules to control children, you are mistaken. Give them maximum freedom
for that is the real way to control them. Various tricks have to be
employed at the appropriate time to bring children under control. A kid
with lots of anger is a problem. It indeed reflects lots of stress and
frustration in the child.
To help child manage
his stress, it is necessary first to locate the source of its negative
emotions. The question of management arises when you know what exactly
is to be managed.
It is wrong to suppress the feelings of child,
positive or negative, with force. Every age has some special activities
related to it. Let the child enjoy his age. Childhood arrives, but once
in a lifetime. In your life time and his life time!
Now, the question arise how to help child manage the stress? You can manage the
anger and frustration of child gradually. Find out the stressors and act
accordingly. The child must be taught what needs to watched and
monitored to debar stress. Reward the good deeds and punish the bad ones.
But then, punishing the children is not an easy task. Therefore, you find
the parents especially the mothers on the look out and she is ever ready
to accept revised suggestions from the experienced elders, educators and
community leaders. Children will be children. What matters is how do you
handle them during those moments of outbursts. Notwithstanding all the
latitude that you show, the child needs to know that you mean discipline
and that you will implement it with lots of strictness.
There is a special method to handle them. By experience, you know what are the
routine problems of your child. With force being ruled out, diplomacy
and tact should be your tools to achieve the objective. Listen to them
patiently, let them empty their complaint basket first. And give them
the appropriate suggestions to solve these problems.
Let the child know when you will love them and when they are likely to be
punished.
Parenting teens is no ordinary challenge. Many a times
you become frustrated and you yourself need stress management tips. This
is the crucial time, when children spend most of the time in your
company and their ideal and idol is you. You need to set a perfect
example regarding any matter, so that they can emulate you!