Information for Parents
Family Resources
Identify Why a Baby Cries
Frustrated?
How to Help Yourself
Senate Resolution
- Try some of the following tips to take care of your own needs. Let your anger out in a safe way. Shake a rug, do dishes or laundry, scrub a floor, beat a pillow or just sit down and have a good cry. It is okay to feel frustrated - as long as you don't take it out on the baby.
- Calm down. Take several deep breaths; count to 100, put yourself in a time-out chair until you're calm.
- Stop and think about why you feel so angry. Is it the child or is he just a convenient target for your anger?
- Sit or lie down, close your eyes, think of a pleasant place in your memory for several minutes.
- Call a friend, relative, or neighbor to talk about your frustration or see if someone can take over for a while
- Do something for yourself. Listen to soft music, exercise, take a shower or bath.
- Write down the ten best things about yourself. Write down the ten best things about your child.
- Remember that crying doesn't hurt a baby - - shaking does.
Mary Salisbury
Tel: (217) 522-1129
