Overview

Everyone has times of stress. Sometimes we are keenly aware of how it affects us and sometimes we are not. As many have experienced, even times of great joy can be very stressful; for example: weddings, the birth of a child, even a new job. As many have experienced, stress can help strengthen and unite us; but it can also do the opposite depending on how we think, what we do and our own personal resilience.

Children have their own stresses which affect them just as severely as ours do us. Sometimes, because they do not have the experience we have, what may appear to be minor to us, can be devastating to a child.

Most good parents often feel the stresses and struggles of their children, no matter how much they try to shelter their children from the significant stresses in their (the adults) life, they will often feel, but not understand the significant stresses of their parent or other adults around them. Depending upon the age and maturity of the child, they may not have the understanding and/or skills to deal with their own stresses let alone the stresses of significant adults in their life. Following are a few things which may help both the adult and the child.

(When a brief synopsis of the following information was published in the Deseret News and Mormon Times, one person dismissed the information as without any scientific grounds.  Fortunately and apparently unknown to the commentator and while the importance of revealed wisdom is preeminent, there is also a great deal of scientific basis for what follows.)