How to reduce stress at home
This article talks about how you can handle stress at home and try to be more positive. When you spend time together, share different chores, sit down and eat together, communicate with each other, it makes any situation more pleasurable and less stressful.
• Never bring your work stress at home. Learn to leave your stress at the door. If you had a bad day at work, don’t walk in on your family with an angry face because then you might be channelling that negative energy onto your family even without realising it. Practice deep breathing or listen to your favourite music to calm yourself, it will help you to get in a better mood and keep your family thankful for your positive energy.
• To avoid any kind of conflict at home it is necessary to split and share your tasks. Doing household chores is not fun at all, but they have to be done. It allows a person to learn a new skill and also helps to avoid future conflict.
• Sharing meals and eating together as a family is important. Dinner time should always be family time as this provides an opportunity for the whole family to build on their relations and communicate with each other. Children can be taught how to deal with their problems and respond to any kind of pressure that they might be facing.
• Planning family activities/outings helps to keep the communication going and allows bonding time for the whole family. Go for a walk, play board games or do an art project together.
• Keep communication open and guide to support your family members if you feel they seem troubled by anything. Don’t assume, talk to them, encourage them and let them know that you are available to help them out in their difficult times.
Argument, conflict, passion, love are the things in which ways we relate, bond and learn about one another. It is how we develop as a family and as a person. So, if you learn how to manage and balance stress in your life and as a family, it helps to build a stronger you and keeps your family prepared on handling future problems.
Reference:
- Amber J. Hammons and Barbara H. Fiese. (2011) Is Frequency of Shared Family Meals Related to the Nutritional Health of Children and Adolescents?.Pediatrics.127(6)https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2010-1440
- Human.cornell.edu/pam/outreach/upload/Family-Mealtimes-2.pdf