Dealing With Stress In a Family

     Awe, who doesn't love a good old bout of stress every now and again? I know that I always kneel down at night and my prayers sound something like this, "Wow, so today wasn't really too bad. Tomorrow let's kick it up a notch ok. Let's make it a level 10 day tomorrow." (by the way that what I have said thus far is called sarcasm and it is all a bunch of bunk!)

     The most important thing is to keep in balance. As the stress side of the scale is weighed down then we need to add something to the coping side to balance it out. In a family unit the stressors might be siblings fighting and the coping side might have to be communicating feelings or playing a board game as a family. As long as we strive to keep that scale in balance then our families will do the same.