The top 10 stressors on families today are:
1. Economics
2. Children’s behavior
3. Insufficient couple time
4. Lack of shared responsibility in the family
5. Communicating with children
6. Insufficient “me” time
7. Guilt for not accomplishing more
8. Spousal relationship
9. Insufficient family play time
10. Overscheduled family calendar
These stressors effect children in many ways such as children are able to pick up on the stress of their parents and they will start acting in similar ways. They act out and disobey because they feel stressed and are not sure what to do with it. They may yell and talk back and act with negative behavior because they know something is wrong. Some children do not act out, but instead become quiet and reserved and stop expressing their feelings, withdrawing from their family and social connections. When families and parents are not communicating with their children or making time for them the children may feel as if they have done something wrong and a sense of responsibility for the problems. They take it on themselves and become depressed because they feel left out, alone and responsible for something that is way beyond their control.
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Vanessa:
ReplyDeleteI like how you point out that children can take stressors on to themselves and become depressed, etc. I think that this could be one of the reasons we have an increase in children with emotional instability (speaking from experience here, I was one of 'em LOL). I hadn't taken the stressor thoughts and considered them that in depth, so thanks for the extra direction to head in.
I agree with you, children will take these stressors and because depressed and left out, with the feeling of being alone. You had great stressors, that can affect a child greatly
ReplyDeleteI also agree, and I think it's really interesting how children can sense tense situations and pick up on their parent's stress levels and react to them, even when they don't understand what is going on.
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