Healthy Parenting Handbook with Katie Kimball 053: Building Resilience & Reducing Stress in Kids: Interview with Jess Sherman
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Jan 14, 2025 In this engaging discussion, Jess Sherman, a nutritionist and author of "Raising Resilience," sheds light on the alarming rise of anxiety and depression in children. She emphasizes the critical connection between nutrition and emotional health, stressing how proper food choices can enhance resilience and self-regulation. Jess reveals that even the best educational systems struggle to unlock children’s full potential due to underlying stressors. Parents are encouraged to recognize these challenges and actively involve their kids in healthy eating to foster better behavioral and emotional outcomes.
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Resilience Defined
- Resilience is the ability to cope with stress, adversity, and learn from failures.
- Kids struggling with anxiety, depression, or aggression often have low resilience, meaning their stress tolerance is eroded.
Kids React to Stress
- Children respond to their environment, food, and people reactively.
- Kids struggling with self-regulation are responding to accumulated stress, highlighting the importance of addressing underlying stressors.
Stressors Framework
- Analyze a child's stressors by categorizing them as social, environmental, or biological.
- Consider relationships, surroundings, and internal factors like nutrition or gut health to understand behavior.
