An online survey conducted by the American Psychological Association (APA) in August 2010 found that 73 percent of parents report the responsibility in the family becomes the source of the emergence of stress.
More than two-thirds of parents think, the level of stress that could possessed little influence stress levels of their children. However, only 14 percent of teens who reported that they were not bothered when their parents are stressed.
Nonetheless, it is anticipated that stress does not affect family owned.
Here are tips to manage stress in the family, as written American Psychological Association, Saturday (28/2017).
Evaluation lifestyle
As a parent, you should menyontohkan healthy behavior in front of children.
You can evaluate the stress, for example, if you tend to overeat or other unhealthy behavior (smoking and drinking) when under stress.
You can slowly alter or eliminate the behavior.
Discuss the causes of stress
If you see kids looking worried or stressed, ask them to say what was on his mind.
You can talk to each other in the family in order to help each other and to better understand and be able to cope with any stress experienced by children.
Create a healthy family environment
Home, work space, and social environment can affect your behavior. By changing the environment in the home can help relieve stress.
For example, cleaning the rooms in the house you can control at the same time teach children to focus on the things they can control when feeling stressed.
Focus on yourself
The correlation between health, obesity and unhealthy behaviors selection so strong. When you and your family are experiencing stress, make the decision to pay attention to yourself. You can consume enough nutrition, physical activity, and sleep.
When you feel overwhelmed by stress, you can easily eat fast food, play video games or watching TV, and not enough sleep.
To fix this, you can present a healthy diet along with your family activities, such as walking or riding a bike and then ends with a good night's sleep.
Changing a habit
Not an easy change to make some important changes in time, such as eating healthy foods, the body is more active physically, hours of sleep a night is better or spend more time together with family.
To achieve that change usually takes time. You can start by changing one habit, which will slowly make you and your family can move forward together more healthy.
If one habit changes successful, this will encourage your family to do other habit changes.
On the other hand, if you or a family member continues to struggle to change unhealthy behavior or feel overwhelmed by stress, consider seeking help from a health professional, such as a psychologist.
Licensed psychologist can help you develop a strategy of how to manage stress effectively and make behavioral changes to help improve your overall health.
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