August 08, 2019 | Tagged Parenting,
How to Decrease Stress in Your Home
You have two jobs in the home. Decrease distress and increase eustress. Eustress is good stress that is necessary for growth and change. Most kids have enough natural eustress in their lives with school, athletics, expectations, etc… Your job is to help get them to recover, and provide healthy ways to do this.
Don’t add to DISTRESS by:
Argumentation—the arguments you have over eating veggies probably are more dangerous than the not enough veggies.
Becoming a task reminder—as a parent, if your main conversations with your kids are to remind them of tasks, we can guarantee your kids don’t want to be around you or spend time with you. Task reminders add stress. They will want to move away from you if you are constantly a source of stress.
Criticism and complaint—getting judged is stressful and for most kids, school is a place of often unending judgment—clothes, words, stories, skills, appearance. Your judgment and condemnation will be too heavy to bear.
Add to the EUSTRESS by:
Working out or playing games together. Sweat and work out. Rebound for your kid while he or she is shooting. Play a game of laundry basketball. This is a great way to decompress stress and increase healthy change.
Hike or walk together
Go exploring or on a new adventure together—it doesn’t have to be to Australia, it could be to a new part of town or a new adventure that would bring you both joy.
Add fun games to your routine or music. Dance while you clear the table. Rock out when cleaning the house together.
Know how to recover
- Ask forgiveness after conflict or stressful encounters
- Sleep more
- Turn off the TV and media
- Have cell phone free times
- Encourage and speak love to your child that isn’t based on comparison
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