Morning times don’t have to be hectic

GETTING you and your children out the door to school and work in the morning can have your stress levels soaring.

Parent coach Marian Byrne says morning stress is generally to do with a mismatch in urgency — parents are working to an agenda and a time constraint but children don’t have the same urgency.

“Sometimes it’s the child who’s time-oriented and the parent is scattered and all over the place. The child doesn’t want to walk into class late or likes to get in before everybody else,” says Byrne, who sees the first hour of the day as the rudder of the day, setting the tone for the remainder.