What you know, can relieve stress. Stress can be caused by many factors and if you think about it, many times stress is caused by the fact that you do not know how to handle what has happened or what you are dealing with. Recently I found myself in this situation. I was at the zoo with my children and my sister, and we were enjoying a lovely day. It was early in the season and there were ducks everywhere.
Lets let the kids get a closer look.
The petting zoo had not opened for the season, so we inocently stopped next to the duck and we took a picture and the kids ooooed and ahhhed. My infant son was eating crackers and I reached over and got a cracker to offer our new friend. Instantly I had duck stress. Had I known that you should not feed these wandering fiends, none of this would have happened. Because of this knowledge I will never again let my children be as near to a duck as we were that day.