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How to Help Your Stressed Child

What can we do to help our child escape their stress? Here is a guide on comforting your child as a coParent.
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Tangee Veloso
Tangee Veloso, Founder and Executive Director of Family Love Village (FLV), is an eco-mamapreneur, coParenting life coach, and author.

How to Help Your Stressed Child

So what happens when a child is highly stressed out? Stress and trauma can affect his or her ability to think and feel, which affects their behavior.

Several behaviors include:
• Delays in development
• The development of new fears
• Regressive behavior
• Separation anxiety (particularly in young children)

• Sleep disturbance, nightmares
• Feelings of depression; angst
• Feelings of blame and guilt
• Loss of interest in normal activities
• Reduced focus and possible decline in schoolwork

• Social withdrawal
• Anger, acting out
• Self-destructive behaviors
• Excessive somatic complaints of physical ailments

What can we do to help our child escape their stress? Here is a guide on comforting your child as a coParent.