Why Children suffer from Stress: Stress is a state of mental strain or tension resulting from demanding circumstances. Adults feel that children are happy and carefree as they need not to worry about day to day struggles of life in office or business circumstances. However, children also suffer from stress due to many reasons which are as follows : 1) Their inability to properly express their feelings 2) Parents inability to properly understand their feelings 3) Ongoing relationship problems between parents , parents on a verge of separation or separated . Even amicable divorce can create tremendous stress as they are not prepared for the big change in family fabric 4) Bullying in home or in school 5) Poor academic performance and resultant adverse reaction in home or school 6) Parents loving inclination to a specific child making the other one's feel neglected 7) If parents or any one of them is emotionally unstable and undergoes mood swings