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How To Make Coping With Stress Easier For Your Kids Stress is as dangerous for children as it is for adults. We may remember our childhoods as happy and calm times, but the truth is that growing up is full of different stress sources. This situation is perfectly ok - we all needed a certain level of stress to develop properly and create some resistance to stressful situations. However, there are also situations when stress becomes too dangerous to be coped with without external support. At such times the family should do its best to protect the child from negative effects of stress. The Stressed Out Teenager When our children reach the age of 13-14 years old, their life changes. Now they become real teenagers with all good and bad stuff this brings. They will have to face enormous amounts of stress, often for the first time in their lives. They will have to pass their first "real" exams - ones that will decide about their whole future. They will fall in love for the first time in their lives and will probably have sex some time after that. Finally, they will be in danger of getting into alcohol and drugs problems and they will have to fight with the urge to just let go on life.