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Incorporate family breathing breaks throughout your daily routines. Teach kids how to use their breath to calm down. It helps to quiet your mind and help you relax. It helps if you actually say in your mind, “I am breathing in, and I am breathing out.” It may sound silly, but it keeps your mind focused on something you can control: your breath. When you start to become anxious and extremely stressed, try sitting and breathing for a minute or so. Practice deep breathing or mindfulness.Read a book, sit on the porch and enjoy the scenery, enjoy coffee with a friend, or have a family movie or game night. Take time to do something that is meaningful, relaxing and fun to you and your family.Sometimes other people notice our stress cues before we do.

Observe your kids and other family members for signs of stress and ask them to do the same for you.

For example, when you’re stressed, do you become forgetful, short tempered, clumsy or something else? Think about what gets your attention the most. While there is no perfect way to manage stress, here are some tips that may work for you and your family: Chronic stress has been shown to suppress your immune system, increase blood pressure and blood sugar levels and exacerbate underlying conditions like anxiety and depression.įiguring out what stress management tools work best for you can be a process. Stress that is not managed can manifest into chronic stress. The most important thing to do is to recognize, accept and manage your stress to avoid negative physical and emotional consequences. Stress can come from seemingly small events like heavy traffic or a long line at the store, or it can be a result of a crisis event, like the loss of a job, a death in the family, a pandemic such as that caused by the novel coronavirus, the virus that causes the infectious disease COVID-19, or the catastrophic flooding experienced in mid-Michigan. What causes stress for one person may seem like no big deal to someone else. We all encounter stress in a variety of different situations, forms and amounts.