Stress is a daily factor of life for most mums. We’ve all been there; you’ve got 2 minutes to make the 10 minute journey to school and one of your little darlings needs a poo, or remembers a book they need to take (that you asked them to put in their bag an hour ago), or has a sudden and illogical aversion to the socks they’re wearing. These things are unavoidable when you have children, but how can we manage them without getting stressed? Anxiety UK offers some advice:

Stress is used to describe the feelings people experience when the demands made on them are greater than their ability to cope. When feeling ‘stressed,’ people can often feel overloaded, under tremendous pressure and very tense or emotional. Stress affects everyone, young and old and is a completely normal reaction that all human beings will experience from time to time. In today’s fast paced world, where many women are having a family as well as a career, i...