How to Help Your Children Deal with Burnout

Burnout, however, does not just exist in a workplace setting. There is parental burnout, which leaves you feeling “exhausted, less productive, and competent and emotionally withdrawn.” It is highly associated with depression.

Kids, too, experience burnout. As defined in Understood.org, a non-profit umbrella organization that provides support for parents of kids with learning and attention issues in the U.S., burnout in children is a “state of mental, physical or emotional exhaustion” and can happen “when kids are faced with ongoing stress or frustration with no chance to relax and recharge.”