Avoidance Can Be a Solution

If surviving stress were a reality television show, your teen may get points for completing the daily challenge. Luckily, your teen doesn’t live on a reality show set (right?), which means they can enjoy a much more useful way to manage stress: avoidance. Some problems deserve your teen’s attention. Others only generate stress because your teen has given them attention. Life is hard enough without dealing with avoidable things, such as being sucked into a friend’s drama or going to a place that only makes you miserable. Avoidance, in those cases, is a sign of strength. That’s reality.

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