This is the third installment on my series of notes from the Stress Workshop I attended last week hosted by our school district…

Once the speaker, psychologist Lou Bevilacqua, defined stress and who gets it, he gave some basic tips on what to do.

First, he said the following strategies do NOT work:

• yelling
• threatening
• shutting down
• melting down
• lecturing
• bribing
• blackmailing
• nagging

and finally,

• ignoring
• invalidating

Continue reading “Managing Stress: It’s a Continuum” →