Today's Stress Tip..by G. Gaynor McTigue..FRI 5/19/06

Don't let the media bring up your kids.

Just because it's on TV, in the movies, or in a magazine doesn't make it "okay", healthy or morally acceptable. More than ever, the media are driven by ratings and profits -- hardly by social responsibility. If you're stressing out over what your kids are exposed to, you should be. Sex, violence, and offensive language are being pawned off on increasingly younger audiences. Don't look the other way, claim you don't have time to be vigilant, or give in because other kids are doing it. Monitor what your children watch and read very carefully. Let YOUR influence -- not the media's, not other parents' -- guide your kids. Or risk having their childhood snatched right out from under them. Why make yourself crazy?


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Try not to work with impatience.

Example: projects you don't have much time for...things you reluctantly have to do over...tasks you don't enjoy doing at all. If you do them impatiently -- with lack of focus, careless haste, shortness of breath -- it only makes them more unpleasant, more stressful, and seem longer. Do one of two things: put off the project until you're mentally prepared to take it on; or, relax and resign yourself to giving it the attention it deserves. Once committed to doing it right, you might even start to enjoy the work. You have to do it anyway. Why make yourself crazy?

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