Julia Lipscombe: Identifying ways to mitigate stress crucial to being a present parent

How can I parent when I’m stressed?
Stress is a pretty familiar sensation for me. I feel stressed about myriad things — freelance projects, interpersonal conflict, money. I feel stressed when my husband is stressed. I feel stressed when other family members are stressed. 
And that stress manifests itself in many ways — how I eat, how I sleep, and of course how I parent. Sometimes how I talk to our three sons is exactly how I find out that I’m feeling stressed. When I