People who work with children are prone to various forms of stress, but they can learn to avoid it or turn it to positive effects, says Andrea Clifford-Poston
No-one is immune from stress and maybe this is why the word has become so popular. It is also possible, however, that stress is a word used nowadays with many different meanings. A grandmother who says she 'didn't have time to be stressed by childrearing in her day' probably found it just as difficult as her daughter does, but describes it differently. She was, she says, 'just busy'. What is the difference between ordinary 'busy-ness', hard work and stress?
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