So, you have a stressed-out teen… Here are some ways to help a stressed-out teen in overwhelming times.
These tips for checking with your teen’s mental health are possibly more important today than ever.
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Ways To Help A Stressed Out Teen: Calming tips
Leo Baubata posted his zen habits for calmness. Here are his 7 habits and the link to his article with much more information:
- A calm morning ritual
- Watch your response when you are stressed
- Don’t take things personally
- Be grateful
- Create stress coping habits
- Single task
- Reduce noise
If you can encourage your teen to just try one or two of these habits to try, it will go a long way to relieving their stress. I, for one, reduced the noise I was hearing over the past weekend. I did not listen to news. I did not read anything that might stress me out.
I basically took a time out from news for a couple of days. It was wonderful, and I plan on doing this every weekend from now for as long as the current (insert whatever you want!) situation goes on. The news isn’t going anywhere. It really refreshed my soul to tune the world out for a bit.
For a relaxing bath, here are are some bath bombs for guys and gals.
Have your teen try a time out, even if it’s just for a few hours, they will be glad they did it! This will be a great way to help a stressed out teen.
Calming Activities by Karen at Nourishing Teens
Sleep For Teen Is So Important by Parenting High Schoolers
Ways To Help A Stressed Out Teen: Diverting activities
Our teens have a lot on their plates with school, friends, social media, jobs and more.
Here are a few fun things that might distract them when they have a moment of boredom! Staying busy is good for a stressed out teen, as long as it is balanced with rest and relaxation. If they have some down time…
18 Killer Podcasts by Nancy at Raising Teens Today
101 Things to Do When You’re Stuck at Home by Nancy at Raising Teens Today
100 Blissful Solutions to Teen Boredom by Shannon at Skip to My Life
Things To Do During Quarantine by Loren at LorenKellyCoaching (These are good things to do when your teen has downtime. Hopefully, there won’t be another quarantine!)
Easy Ways for Tweens and Teens to Relax by Laurie at Pardon Me, My Crown Slipped
Ways To Help A Stressed Out Teen: Stress management
If a teen has anxiety, it’s a whole other dimension of stress. It is all-consuming, and overpowering. Teens may need outside help. They for sure need for you to know that it is very real to them. More than anything, they need your love and support!
Why Anxiety Can Destroy Your Gen Z Child by Shannon at Skip to My Life
Natural Stress Relievers for Teens by Miranda at The Reluctant Cowgirl
Here are some strategies I share for teens that are stressed out on my YouTube channel for Parenting High Schoolers
*We had a son struggling with depression -and before Covid he had no problems. Would these problems have surfaced without the pandemic? Possibly, but we will never know. All I know is that I am proud of how he handled himself, and he worked his way towards his future with help from us, his friends, and a counselor. Please check in with your teens!
Ways To Help A Stressed Out Teen: Deal with school anxiety
Here are some basic tips to help teens with school stress…
- Have a schedule
- Use a planner or some sort of calendar
- Start big projects early-as in right away!
- Create a dedicated work space
- Talk to the teacher
- Get a tutor
- Prioritize work by date due and amount of work that will be needed
Here are my friends’ tips for dealing with school stress…
Helping Kids to Thrive As They Adjust to Distance Learning by Betsy at Betsyjewell.com with Kellyann Rohr (This is a podcast as well as a blog post.)
Ways That You Can Help Your Teen With Finals Next Phase Parenting
Ways To Help A Stressed Out Teen: Model stress management techniques
Stress is a factor every day in our teens’ lives. School, work, family, money, dating relationships, the list is endless. We need to model behaviors that are positive for our teens to emulate. We need to practice self-care, so that we can help meet their needs and show that it’s a great stress management tool.
Let’s help our teens to fill their toolboxes with strategies for dealing with stress today and any other time that will be stressful in the future.
Here is a great post on coping with all this as a mom from my friend Miranda at The Reluctant Cowgirl.
Here is a post that I wrote about self-care under the best of times, but is great for now because there are tiny doable things that you can do to have a better day, every day!
Here are some affirmations to get us through these days from my friend Shannon at Skip To My Life
Ways To Help A Stressed Out Teen: Conversations can help
The thing is that we should always make time to have conversations. Our teens are only with us for a limited amount of time -the countdown has started for them to leave for college or a job or the military or one of a million things.
Use the time that you have with your kids to have some of these important conversations about making their future a better place to be. Help your teen to have an advantage by discussing important tips that will help them no matter what is going on in the world.
5 Easy Ways to Improve Communication With Your Teen
7 Things to Know If You Love a Teenager
Ways To Help A Stressed Out Teen: Apps Can Help
We know that our kids are probably on their devices too much. But, these are proven to be helpful -nice to know that there are good uses of technology!
Calm -this is a FREE download
Calm Sounds -also FREE
Moshi Kids: Sleep and Mindfulness -again, FREE
Tangle -FREE
Aware -FREE -mindfulness techniques
Spiritual Me -only $1.99, but it has a tracker and many options
Many of these are similar to each other. And, there are so many more. I recommend having your teen try each one to see which features they like, and which one works best. They may like different ones with different options. Who can beat FREE?
Ways To Help A Stressed Out Teen: Final Thoughts
I wrote this originally during the pandemic. Stress and isolation were at an all time high. Stress during the teenage years is real no matter what the situation, and we need to be vigilant as parents. I hope these strategies help you help your teen. If one thing doesn’t work, try another.
Remember, if you see something that is causing you concern, get professional help.
And, a note as a someone who has had a teen struggling with depression and anxiety… A friend of mine called me a few days before our son told us he was in a dark place. We had decided to give him 3 days to tell us himself or we would intervene. I will forever be grateful for that friend, and it as
Have you read my book? It’s all about talking with your teens to prepare them for their future: college, jobs, life…
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