Tips for managing parental stress

Christine Carter, PhD Sociologist and Happiness Expert, shares advice for parents on a few simple ways to help manage the daily stress of being a parent
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Tips for managing parental stress

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It's really important for kid's happiness, that their parents manage their stress in some way. One thing I recommend parents do, in order to get better at managing stress, is to pay attention to their daily routines and habits and notice if you have a routine that is not working for you. If, every single day, you are stressed out and yelling, you notice your younger child is crying. I began to notice this when my child went off to school. I would notice that every single day at 7:57, I was screaming at them. The stress level was high. That's what I mean. The pain point in your routine, where every single day, we are feeling negative emotions. What we need to do is re-engineer those pain points that we feel positive emotions in a routine kind of way. The first thing to do is pay attention to your routines, where they are working and where they are not. I also want parents to pay attention to the times are going really well. So scheduled bliss. I feel really great at bedtime with my kids, that works really well for us. I get to talk about good things that happened during the day. I really love that. To make sure that is baked in to your every day routine, is really important to your feeling happier, overall.

Christine Carter, PhD Sociologist and Happiness Expert, shares advice for parents on a few simple ways to help manage the daily stress of being a parent

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Christine Carter, PhD

Sociologist & Happiness Expert

A sociologist and happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, Christine Carter, PhD is the author of Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents. Dr. Carter also writes an award-winning blog for Greater Good, which is syndicated on the Huffington Post and PsychologyToday.com. Carter has helped thousands of parents find more joy in their parenting while raising happy, successful and resilient kids. Known for her parenting and relationship advice, Carter draws on psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and uses her own chaotic and often hilarious real-world adventures to demonstrate the do’s and don’ts in action.

After receiving her B.A. from Dartmouth College, where she was a Senior Fellow, Dr. Carter worked in marketing management and school administration, going on to receive her PhD. in sociology from UC Berkeley. Dr. Carter has been quoted in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle and dozens of other publications. She has appeared on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” the “TODAY” show, the “Rachael Ray Morning Show,” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” and NPR.

Carter has been a keynote speaker at hundreds of events and professional groups. In 2010, she received an award from the Council on Contemporary Families for her outstanding science-based reporting on family issues. In 2011 she won Red Tricycle’s award for the “Most Awesome Parent Education,” and so far in 2012 she has been nominated for a Bammy Award and for an award from the American Sociological Association for public sociology.

Dr. Carter teaches parenting classes online throughout the year to a global audience on raisinghappiness.com. She lives with her family in Berkeley, CA.

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