Parents can rehearse how to handle potentially stressful situations with their children. Avoid overprotecting your children. It is sometimes hard for parents to watch their children deal with stressful situations, since their first instinct is often to protect them from the stresses of life. However, stress is unavoidable in life. Parents will be doing their children a disservice if they always try to protect them from stress.
Children learn how to cope with stress only by experiencing it.
Parents should help their children gain confidence in handling problems by giving them responsibilities and letting them make decisions from an early age. Parents should also help their children develop interests in which they can succeed. Parents should offer their children a lot of encouragement and praise. Parents should be available to their children when they are experiencing stress. They should provide lots of hugs, pats on the back, kisses, etc.