Entering The Flu Season, These Are Tips For Parents To Overcome Stress When Facing Sick Children

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JAKARTA - The flu season often adds emotional burden to mothers, between anxiety about children's health, work pressure, and household responsibility. Many mothers feel panicked every time their children cough or have a fever, so they are tempted to continue 'tracing the internet' looking for symptoms. Even though it often makes anxiety increase, not helping.

In the midst of that worry, it's a good idea to pause and take a deep breath. You can choose to respond calmly, realize that worry is a natural response, but it doesn't necessarily lead to a solution.

One of the important steps to launch Parents, Monday, December 8, is to plan logistics well. for example talking to superiors now, or preparing people who can help take care of their children if they are sick suddenly. With the preparation of reserves before illness appears, the mental burden due to the possibility of taking leave or loss of income can be reduced.

Emotionally, practice calm with mindfulness, observe anxiety thoughts without having to be dissolved in them. Repeat the encouragement or simple affirmation, so that you can reduce acute anxiety. Sometimes, instead of stress, the time of caring for sick children can be a close and loving moment. Like reading a book together, reading a story, or just holding them can give peace to mothers and children.

It is also important to remember that the child's immune system needs to be 'trained' and the experience of dealing with flu several times in childhood can make his body later more resilient.

In addition, so that mothers are stressed not to burden the body and mind constantly, mothers can adopt a healthy lifestyle, such as getting enough sleep, light exercise or walking, giving me-times for a while, and sharing household duties whenever possible. This will help maintain a mother's mental and physical balance, so that she can face the flu season stronger and calmer.