Do you feel you . . . These are all common feelings for single parents. Stress and Parenting All parenting involves stress.
Some stress can be good.
Yet, when we have too much stress, it keeps us from being healthy and happy. For example, too much stress affects our thinking. When this happens, it is harder to solve a problem. How we see or perceive an event causes us to feel stressed, not the event itself. If we change how we view an event, we can reduce our stress.