TEEN STRESS

Different teens will deal with stress in different ways. How your
teen deals with stress will most likely depend on their personality as
well as how you have raised them and taught them as a parent.

THINGS THAT CAN CAUSE STRESS
There happen to be many causes of teen stress for in today's times
teenagers have alot to contend with and worry about. Some examples of
those are:

1. Peer Pressure

2. Choosing careers

3. Demanding expectations from today's society

4. Worrying about family, friends and finances

HELPING TEENS HANDLE STRESS
If you have a teenager in your life, you need to do all you can to help
them cope with the stress that they come across in their life. Stress
that teens face can push them into drug abuse, alcohol abuse,
depression and many many more problems. Teens need to know how to vent
and cope with stress in a positive and not destructive way.
Life is always throwing them curves and forcing them to face issues
that makes them stress which is a way their bodies react to these
issues. Learning how to cope and deal with this stress when your a
teenager will affect your health and ability to develop into a
insightful and successful adult. We should give clarity and credance to
our teens' stress for they truly need to know how to deal with it in a
healthy and safe way.

HOW WE CAN HELP AS PARENTS
If you know your teen is dealing with stress in their life here are a
few ideas that I think may help. The thing I think is most important
is to make sure your teen has someone they feel they can open up to and
talk to whether it be a sibling or a parent. If they dont have any
family close by then you should seek some outside help for them to
confide in such as a counselor or support group.
If your teen has not made any friends in school, then help them by
checking out the local community center, church youth groups, sports or
any opportunity where other teens may be looking for a friend too.
Let your teen know you realize his stress is a problem for him and even
though it is not something that there is a magic pill for that will
just make it go away, that they can can learn to find ways to cope with
it in positive ways so as they can live happy and productive lives for
a somewhat stress free life. Every teen will have to find his or her
own way of dealing with their stress but it is important that they all
have someone to vent with or talk to and to know you as their parent
will "always" be there when you are needed!