SMALL KID, BIG STRESS

If your child has started misbehaving, it might not be naughtiness, but rather stress.

Just as stress can negatively impact adults, the effects of stress on children can cause moodiness, emotional swings and acting out, explains Rashmita Davechand from Stress-Away Tibb Health Sciences. Other indicators of stress are changes in sleep patterns and head- and stomach aches. They might struggle to focus and withdraw socially. You might even see thumb sucking and hair twirling again.

And yes, they stress about the pandemic too.

Tibb Stress-Away Syrup can be given to children as young as 6 months to help manage stress, restore calmness and help with sleeping patterns through its multi-herbal formulation. R164,95 from Dis-Chem, Clicks and large retailers.