Stress affects every area of a child’s life. A few emerging sciences show:

A child’s HPA (Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis) will develop in a way to manage a higher allostatic load (stress load)
Adaptations of the HPA will affect metabolism, and immune and digestive systems
Adaptations of the HPA are linked to neurodevelopmental pathologies including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and others
Stress affects children’s genes (studies of epigenetics show that experiences during development rearrange the epigenetic marks that govern gene expression, they change whether and how genes release the information they carry)

Children also face compounded stress. They pick up stress from their own experiences AND they pick up their parents’ stress.

Since children are wired to connect to their parents, children will repeatedly attempt to connect with them, have their needs met, co-regulate and more. They become stressed even further when these attempts to connect fail.
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