Adapted from NASP Handouts

Kids have stress?

      Stress is a feeling of discomfort that is experienced somewhat differently by children compared to adults, and from one person to another. Stressful events for kids might include: parents’ divorce, abuse or neglect, poverty, school failure, illness, moving to a new home, a new baby in the home, etc. Some stress consists of small everyday hassles that kids learn to cope with. Other stressors are more significant. The perception of stress is also related to experience and development – what is stressful for one person may not even amount to a small hassle for another person. Can you remember a time when something happened that nearly sent you “through the ceiling” in anger, even though on another day the same event might not have even bothered you? Indeed, our thoughts do often control our moods.

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