“I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids.” WellsCareKidsLevelsRolesHabitExerciseHealthyEatingStressRole ModelsModelingGood HabitsEating HealthyStress Levels Author:Monica Potter
“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.” YearsChildrenTwoFeelingsKidsSchoolJoyPurposeThreeEasyLossFiveFourAnxietyStressOur ChildrenCombinationWelfareExcitementTwo YearsFour YearsIrrationalNestsDepartureEasy ThingsTwo Year OldsPre School Author:Vera Farmiga
“I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy.” IfsHumansKidsMomStressStressed Author:Britney Spears
“As a skilled psychologist, Dr. Reznick draws from her wealth of experience to offer children and parents a treasure trove of skills to relieve stress. She presents well-written, easy-to-follow tools to use in every situation. From visualization techniques to breathing exercises, Dr. Reznick taps the power of a child's imagination to ensure kids achieve peace and success.” WellsChildrenUseKidsEasyParentImaginationWealthSituationWrittenAchieveExerciseOffersSkillsDrawsToolsStressTechniqueTreasureBreathingDrsPsychologistVisualizationChildren And ParentsWell WrittenStress RelievingChildren's Imagination Author:Judith Orloff
“As a mother, the one thing that always goes through your head is, You're never enough. You never can be enough - or do enough - for your kids. It's a never-ending issue for me. I had to learn: Don't beat yourself up so much.... You have to take it one day at a time, do the best that you can and enjoy yourself. I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy.” IfsHumansEnoughKidsMotherEnjoyIssuesOne ThingMomOne DayBeatsStressDo The BestStressedNever EndingOne Day At A TimeEnjoy YourselfTake It One Day At A Time Author:Britney Spears
“One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.” LittlesBigsKidsLife IsKnownStressFinancialCancerSeekingCuresTensionHardshipLittle KidFinancial Hardship Author:Andy Richter
“I learned about stress management from my kids. Every night after work, I drink some chocolate milk, eat sugary cereal straight from the box, then run around the house in my underwear screaming like a monkey.” RunningKidsNightHouseDrinkStressManagementBoxesChocolateMilkEvery NightMonkeysUnderwearStress ManagementCerealChocolate Milk Author:Randy Glasbergen
“Moving [to the White House], whatever stresses would be on my husband and me, we could handle; we are grown-ups. But it wouldn't be until the day that my kids came home and said to me, "I like it here," that I'd feel like I could breathe and know that we're all going to be okay here.” KnowsFeelsSaidHomeWould BeKidsMovingHouseWhiteHusbandOkayStressBreatheHandleMy HusbandWhite House Author:Michelle Obama
“I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.” IfsArtEnoughKidsJobsHouseFeltDesignDecidedStressDinnerMoodHandleGood EnoughBotheredInterrupted Author:John Travolta
“Women are told that we can have the most exciting, glamorous, demanding, rewarding careers ever but we also have to be constantly sexy and sexually interested, and when we have children we have to spend more time with our kids. Of course you can't really do all three of those things at once, so we feel this tremendous stress.” FeelsChildrenKidsThreeCoursesCareersExcitingStressSexyMore TimeGlamorousSexually Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Like anyone, I stress and get hard on myself from time to time, but it's minute compared to the pressure I used to put on myself to perform and succeed. To my kids' credit, they've probably helped me the most here: I'm more worried about what they're doing than what I'm doing!” HardKidsUsedMinutesSucceedStressPressureCreditWorried Author:Amanda Beard
“When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.” PeopleFirstsWholeKidsMinutesSonArmsFirst TimeStressCompetitionWhole LifeMy SonChanging Your LifeStressedFeats Author:Amanda Beard
“Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.” WorldWantFirstsHumansKindWarKidsLevelsTalkingGrowing UpGreaterGrowingSeaHugeCivilizationTasteResourcesStressCrisisPopulationTranslateRefugeeDroughtKids Growing UpRefugee CrisisHuman CivilizationSyrian RefugeesSea Level RiseResource Depletion Author:James Cameron
“I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.” PeopleYearsTwoKidsSchoolMovingThreeVoiceGroupsMilitaryPositionMomStressMeetingsThree YearsMultipleSpouseUnfamiliarDeploymentWorking ManWorking MomMilitary Spouse Author:Michelle Obama
“There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively.” PeopleThinkingEnoughKidsParentImaginationStressMatureNurtureMy Imagination Author:Zoe Kazan
“I'm not writing anything out of some sense of obligation, or for marketing purposes. This is just what I prefer to write. Even though I write mostly for kids, I'm not out to teach a moral lesson or present a guidebook for life. My primary goal as a writer is to create fun, entertaining books that present interesting ideas and themes, so kids can have a break from the stresses of their lives. I got a fan letter once from a girl who said one of my books made her feel good about herself, and if there's anything I'm reaching for, it's that.” WritingBookKidsPurposeGirlFunGoalInterestingMoralTeachBreakStressMarketingObligationFeel Good Author:Hope Larson
“Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?” PeopleChildrenTwoHardKidsTogetherJoyNaturalSecuritySourceStressAddRepeatsQuartersConfinedBattlefieldsTossInterpersonalNatural Life Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.” InspirationalKidsChallengesCircumstancesTruth IsStressBossTrafficSpouseJamTraffic JamStressorsHealth Challenges Author:Andrew Bernstein
“I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.” FeelsKidsPassionStressHotChairsEggsConcertsReservesCheeseBad AssMiniaturesWitheringKids LoveNo Stress Author:Olivia Wilde
“We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.” PeopleGivingRunningKidsNaturalLossListeningGive MeStressBusyLoserWeight LossMe AloneJust ListenAlone TimeAntidepressantsBiggest Loser Author:Alison Sweeney
“What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.” IfsKidsSexSinRight NowCommitmentStressPressureBusyCommunicateObstaclesLifestyleSatanDestructiveWornSchedulesExhaustedSpouseFamily LifeInvolvingWorn OutFranticBusy LifeHecticBiggest ObstaclesHectic Schedule Author:James Dobson
“It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.” KidsTakenAnxietyStressFormerExecutivesStress And Anxiety Author:Ana Gasteyer