The beginning of the school year can bring many challenges for both, us and our children. Adjusting to a new school, a new grade, a new schedule, meeting new classmates and teachers can be a test to our kid’s amiability to adapt to change. In the same way, adapting to new traffic patterns, as we take our students to school, negotiating our own schedules to remain available to them, as we attendo to our responsibilities outside of the home, can also be trying for us parents.
Stress is a normal reaction to changing situations, which if perceived as challenges rather than threats, can helps us become energized and more adept to handle the tasks at hand. However, when we see events and circumstances as threats, stress can lead us to anger and/or fear (anxiety), two emotional states that are as similar in the physical reactions they produce as in the level of ineffectiveness they can create in our daily actions and interactions with others.
Learning how to understand, manage and channel our emotional states can make a significant difference in the level of success and satisfaction we experience in our daily lives and our relationships with others. It also may save us from the unhealthy consequences of living in a prolonged state of intense emotional and physical arousal. The first day of class does not need to be a dreaded event for our children, as much as our first carpool does not need to become excessively taxing for us parents, When we learn to make the best of stress and go from “Anxious to Effective”, we give ourselves the opportunity to live more satisfying and healthier lives.
Stress is a normal reaction to changing situations, which if perceived as challenges rather than threats, can helps us become energized and more adept to handle the tasks at hand. However, when we see events and circumstances as threats, stress can lead us to anger and/or fear (anxiety), two emotional states that are as similar in the physical reactions they produce as in the level of ineffectiveness they can create in our daily actions and interactions with others.
Learning how to understand, manage and channel our emotional states can make a significant difference in the level of success and satisfaction we experience in our daily lives and our relationships with others. It also may save us from the unhealthy consequences of living in a prolonged state of intense emotional and physical arousal. The first day of class does not need to be a dreaded event for our children, as much as our first carpool does not need to become excessively taxing for us parents, When we learn to make the best of stress and go from “Anxious to Effective”, we give ourselves the opportunity to live more satisfying and healthier lives.
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