Many Americans have ample reason to feel stressed right now, from the tight job market to divisive politics and the general nature of the daily news.
If you’re a parent, you may need to work a little harder than everyone else to manage that stress healthily, so you can avoid letting it accidentally affect your children, says developmental psychologist Aliza Pressman. That’s especially true if you need to talk with your kids about a stressful piece of current events, so they can hear about it from you in an intentional way instead of picking it up elsewhere, she says.
“You’re not going to be able to parent effectively — or have a close, connected relationship — if your system is in fight or flight [mode]. It just doesn’t work,” says Pressman, co-founder of the Mount Sinai Parenting…
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