Stress and Your Child: Helping Kids Cope with the Strains and

This work 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. The book 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; and how diet, physical activity and realistic schedules can help to minimize stress in children.