Podcast episodes to make back-to-school season less stressful : NPR

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Podcast episodes to make back-to-school season less stressful : NPR

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The rear season at school can be an eventful period for parents. You install your children in a new routine, by mentally preparing them for the new school year and adding homework assistance and lunch preparation at your own schedule.

To make the transition from summer holidays to school less stressful, Life Kit has advice to help parents navigate in the coming weeks.

Calm the soles of your children’s return

Talk to your children of generation Z of their anxiety at the start of the new school year. Today’s teenagers have trouble with great feelings – and their parents find it difficult to have difficult conversations with them, according to a Gallup survey. The teenage psychologist Lisa Damour explains how parents can help their children face feelings of pressure and stress.

Photograph of a mother kissing her two daughters at school. School children have backpacks and are seen in front of their school building. The family is represented from behind. Talking what to expect school before the start of a new year and adopting a goodbye ritual, there are two expert tips to help prepare your child for changes when they start a new year.

Deepen your understanding of your child’s anxiety. When a child is afraid of darkness or to be left alone, it can be difficult for adults to know the difference between fear adapted to age and anxiety in its own right. This episode is full of tools to help parents better understand and manage their child’s “concern”.

Transform your child’s anxiety into superpower. Children have anxiety, but it’s not always a bad thing. Renee Jain and Shefali Tsabary mental health experts have some ideas on how to help children use these feelings to their advantage.

Manage parental stress at home

Divide the household chores (and the mental charge) fairly with your partner. Experts in Relation Eve Rodsky and Jacqueline Misla explain in four stages how to share national work with your partner.

Know the signs of professional exhaustion. Parenting can keep you on your guard all day. But if you find it so physically and mentally draining that you cannot enjoy the family time, it can be a sign of professional exhaustion. Here’s what you can do about it.

Make difficult family decisions with a framework inspired by the company. Raising children of elementary age can mean a maze of difficult decisions about how to manage your family and what is good for your children. The economist Emily Oster offers means to rationalize decision -making with strategies – and data – that work in the business world.

Improve your task list with 7 tiny hacks. Does your task list help you achieve your goals? Or does it hold you? Productivity experts explain how to improve your list so that it favors what matters.

Connect with your children before and after school

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Transform your child’s behavior with a 5 -minute daily game ritual. Called “special time”, the strategy is widely recommended by children’s health professionals to reduce behavioral problems in young children.

Create a stronger link with your children. It may seem counter-intuitive, but if you want to take care of as a parent, stop trying to control your child, explains the psychologist and author Shefali Tsabary. His book, The parental cardPresents a step by step guide to create conscious parent-child relationships.

Navigate difficult conversations with Grace

Regarding screens, children need a guide - not a disciplinary

Talk to your children vaping. They may seem young, but it’s not too early. Prompts and questions adapted to age can help start a productive conversation on nicotine and electronic cigarettes with your child.

Know what to say when your child wants to leave something. You have signed your child for the football team (or swimming lessons, or the piano or art), paid the costs and now they beg to leave! In these moments, it is difficult to know which decision will help your child develop in the long term. Do you ask them to harden and develop persistence? Or trust their emotions?

Wrap healthy lunches that your child will really eat

Jazz in your child’s lunch with 6 easy (and adorable) recipes. Sulhee Jessica Woo, author of the cookbook Let’s lunchSharing healthy and creative meals that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less.

A triptych of photos that show David Nayfeld to make pancakes with his daughter in their kitchen on a wooden island. The first photo shows them by putting vanilla extract in a metal mixture bowl. The second photo shows David cutting pancakes on a plate. And the third photo shows that his daughter feeds a bite of pancake to him.

Bring your children to eat more vegetables. Vegetables help children grow and develop, but it can be difficult to convince them to eat their broccoli. These advice supported by research can help you encourage your children to eat more vegetables – or at least try them.

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