Helping children, teens, and adults decrease stress, anxiety and anger.

Easter Tips For Family Fun

by Lori Lite

Easter tips for family fun allow you to put your own creative spin on Easter and incorporate stress management.

I can still see my daughter with her hands on her hips declaring her truth. “I understand the Tooth Fairy and Santa, but really now, a giant Easter Bunny hopping from house to house hiding eggs?” Holidays are a wonderful excuse to reconnect with family, share stories, look for signs of hope, explore relaxation, and spark your creativity. It doesn’t matter if you celebrate a particular holiday, or you just want to believe that a giant bunny hops from house to house hiding eggs. Use this hopeful holiday to create your own family day. …Details and ORDERS »

Holiday Relaxation Breathing For Children

by Lori Lite

Santa, relatives, parties and the mall can make children nervous or even tremble with fear. Relaxation breathing for children is an effective self-soothing skill they can use before or during their visit with Santa and relatives. Any child with anxiety, Autism, Aspergers, or Sensory Processing Disorders can benefit from this technique. All children can use deep breathing for stress management, anger management, and falling asleep. Practicing breathing prior to stressful events empowers children. Please enjoy the following excerpt from my breathing book  Sea Otter Cove: A Relaxation Story .This story is also available on the Indigo Ocean Dreams CD and in Spanish. It is fun to learn relaxation breathing with a sea otter and sea child. …Details and ORDERS »

St. Patty’s Day Tips / St. Paddy’s Day

By Lori Lite, Founder of Stress Free Kids

You don’t need to be Irish to tap into St. Patty’s Day. Put your own spin on this holiday to get your Irish (or not) eyes smiling and your soul relaxing. Playful family traditions reduce stress and strengthen relationships. Here are a few tips to eat, drink, be merry, and relaxed for St. Patrick’s Day. …Details and ORDERS »

Teens and Drunk Driving

Note to Readers: Teens and drunk driving is a situation we as parents must do our best to prevent from happening. Drug and alcohol testing is a controversial subject, but I believe is using drug and alcohol testing as an empowering tool. Even the strongest most confident teen may find themselves in a situation where they will appreciate being able to say, “ I can’t drink, my mom and dad test me and I will get caught.” Introduce testing long before you suspect anything and explaining to them that you are doing it so that they can “blame their crazy parents” and you and your teens will be glad you did. Thanks to Cindy for sharing her tips to prepare our teens for the temptations of drinking. …Details and ORDERS »

Holidays With Special Needs Children

by Lori Lite

Holiday crowds, lights, noise, strangers, hugging, change in routine, chaos…. This is a recipe for stress and sensory overload during the holidays with special needs children. As parents we need to be flexible with our own definition of what a holiday should look like. Our childhood traditions and rituals just may not work with our special needs children. Let’s create new memories and newly define what holidays look like for our own families. All children can benefit from this exercise and for those with Autism, Aspergers, or Sensory Processing issues, self-regulating is a way of life. When you have a child with special needs… a little stress management planning can go a long way.  …Details and ORDERS »

Tips for Thanksgiving Help Us All Stress Less

by Lori Lite

Family holidays are meant for relaxing around a leisurely meal with friends and loved ones. A few tips for Thanksgiving can get your family to the  table with more smiles and less stress.

Prepare Your Children For Gatherings: Eliminate unnecessary anxiety associated with family gatherings. Look through photos of relatives the day before your event. Play memory games matching names to faces. This will help your children feel more comfortable with people they may not have seen in a while. Aunt Mary won’t seem quite so scary when she bends down to greet your child.

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Halloween Tips to Avoid Meltdowns!

by Lori Lite

Halloween Tips to Avoid Meltdowns with Kids! Enjoy these TRICKS to make sure your child’s Halloween experience is a TREAT! You and your children will benefit from these tips and most of them can be applied to children with special needs. Children with Aspergers, Autism, SPD, and general anxiety orders can enjoy Halloween with a few adjustments.

1. Be flexible! Do not make your definitions of a fun Halloween define your child’s expectation of fun.  It is not necessary for children to have the full blown experience in order for them to have a good time.  If you child wants to answer the door and hand out candy, then let them do that without guilt. If your child wants to sit on the porch and costume watch, then let them. If they just want to go to bed……  Trust me it will not matter when they go to college! …Details and ORDERS »

Travel Tips: Eliminate Stress for Kids and Parents

by Lori Lite

Nothing is worse than realizing that the screaming child on the plane is your own! The restrictive space and criticizing eyes of other passengers puts parents at an extreme disadvantage. Most children realize that you will most likely not discipline them in public. So how can you avoid this challenge and set yourself up for a Stress Free trip? …Details and ORDERS »

Valentine’s Day Tips

by Lori Lite

Valentine’s Day at the Lite house starts with candlelight breakfast and no expectations of flowers or diamonds…but it wasn’t always that way. As a young mom I welcomed the arrival of my first daughter two weeks before Valentine’s Day. My husband was so blissfully in love with his new daughter, new wife, and celebration on new life that he purchased Valentine’s cards to honor every woman he knew: his mother; his sister; his baby daughter;  my mother; my aunt; and even my neighbor! Sounds beautiful except for the simple fact that while he was in a love induced fog he forgot to acknowledge the very woman that spent 16 hours in hard labor only two weeks prior.  Not one gushy, mushy card was for me. My visions of  flowers and diamond rings went right out the window. …Details and ORDERS »

Stress Free Kids New Year’s Tips

by Lori Lite

When you have kids New Year’s Eve takes on a whole new meaning. How about this year trying something new and different? At the same time you can enjoy your evening and the kids will too, try one of these Stress Free New Year’s Eve Tips! …Details and ORDERS »