This book helps parents understand the pressures that their children face every day: stress at school, stress from peer pressure, stress in the playground, and stress within family relationships. It explores the essential ways to reduce, manage, and prevent stress from birth to age 20. This guide leads parents through each stage of a child's emotional and social development and teaches them: How to recognize the physical and emotional signs of stress in children How to understand school-related stress, including social pressures, personal safety, and test-taking How parental stress effects children and what parents can do to alleviate it How teaching children self-esteem and emotional honesty can help them cope with stress How diet, physical activity, and realistic schedules can help to minimize stress in children
(Tags : Stress and Your Child: Helping Kids Cope with the Strains and Pressures of Life (Unabridged) Bettie B. Youngs Audiobook, Bettie B. Youngs Audio CD )