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When a Child's Emotions Spike, How Can a Parent Find Their Best Self?

By Deborah Farmer Kris — 2020

With families around the world spending unprecedented amounts of time in close quarters – and under varying degrees of stress – emotions can run high.

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What Is Chronic Stress?

Chronic stress is a prolonged and constant feeling of stress that can negatively affect your health if it goes untreated. It can be caused by the everyday pressures of family and work or by traumatic situations.

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Elizabeth Scott
2020
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The Effects of Stress on Your Body

You’re sitting in traffic, late for an important meeting, watching the minutes tick away. Your hypothalamus, a tiny control tower in your brain, decides to send out the order: Send in the stress hormones!

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Ann Pietrangelo
2020
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Stress Won’t Go Away? Maybe You Are Suffering from Chronic Stress

Chronic stress, which is constant and persists over an extended period of time, can be debilitating and overwhelming.

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Jennifer F. Kelly, Helen L. Coons
2019
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Stress: A Badge of Honor or a Code Word for Fear?

According to the Center for Disease Control, 80% of visits to the doctor are believed to be stress-related. Yet what is “stress” if not fear, anxiety, and worry dressed up in more socially acceptable clothing?

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Lissa Rankin
2014
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Patience Is a Tool

Patience is more of a tool than a virtue. Too much of it and you let the world trample what's good in you; you become a doormat. Too little, and you trample what’s good in your world; you become a terror.

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Jessica Hagy
2018
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10 Reasons Stress Can Be Dangerous for Your Health

So often stress is considered an amorphous gray area—something we can’t put our finger on or measure that gets dismissed as not being “real.” But I believe that what we think and feel, and how long we think it or feel it, determines our health.

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Robin Berzin
2020
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Robert Sapolsky Discusses Physiological Effects of Stress

Why do humans and their primate cousins get more stress-related diseases than any other member of the animal kingdom? The answer, says Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, is that people, apes and monkeys are highly intelligent, social creatures with far too much spare time on their hands.

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Mark Shwartz
2007
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The Stress Epidemic and the Search for the Modern Cure

The effects of stress remain on the fringes of medicine today, despite reams of research as to the toxic effects of chronic stress on the body.

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Robin Berzin
2016
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A Stanford Psychologist Has a Simple Mental Exercise for Tackling Student Stress

Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist at Stanford, thinks we spend too much time worrying about stress and not enough harnessing it to learn and grow.

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Jenny Anderson
2017
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Science Shows that Stress Has an Upside. Here’s How to Make It Work for You

In Kelly McGonigal’s new book, The Upside of Stress, she argues that stress can “transform fear into courage, isolation into connection, and suffering into meaning.”

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Brigid Schulte
2015
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Helping Children Deal with Emotions