Do kids just have a 6th sense to know when you're stressed?

I ahve that same experience with my son when he was one year old we had big problem in marriage while my wife was crying silently my one year old son suddenly with out any reason hugged her mom and started kissing her. It was a very thought provoking experience how my son suddenyl thought of that idea of hugging her and kissing without him even realizing that he is indirectly consoling her mother at that time. Now he is five years old and her grandmother is very fond of her being a very amiable person. My mother who is currently undergoing chemotherapy and I know is undergoing thru a lot of pains in her body but then my son who doesn't realize what her grandmother is going thru decided to go with her in her home province and stayed there with her. Every morning as my mother tells me that he would just give my mother and father a hug which makes their lives a little better and lighter him being around.

It's quite normal for children to try to push your buttons, even when they are infants. If they can stress you, it seems to give them some sort of mysterious pleasure. My stepson does this to me all the time and I know he does it on purpose but I let it get to me anyway.

I believe its true to some extent and the fact is when ever you see a kid or get along with a kid when you're stressed...the kids obviously reduce your stress level...because kids make you happy and you will feel relaxed..

No, kids don't have that inane sense, or they would know better than to push those buttons. Usually, when you take a minute and look back on what triggered the fight with your kids, you'll find its something they usually do that nags you a little and you let them away with, but simce you are ticked off, really upsets you that one time. its sort of like a tension headache, you feel edgy, and anything at all will set you off. its only later thatyou realize you have a headache. My kids used to look at me when I got that way and ask if I'd eaten anything. By age six they knew when I was in a mood, and it was generally because I'd forgotten to eat in the past 6 hours.

I beleive that our children know us pretty well by the teenage years ( and some by age 3!) and I think that they see our patterns...sometimes when stress is at it's peak in our lives we seem vulnerable to being weaker in our resolves about things our kids should do or not do...I think they sense it and go for the throat!!!( so to speak) They definitely know the button pattern..and for whatever reasons they want to push that big RED one that says "end of world"...just to see if it will be!!! My kids were pretty good about this but ooooooo there were times...now I watch my grandkids at 4 & 6 do the same to their mom and she sizzles as she sees my ever so slight smile!!!

I think you may be on to something there! I have two teenagers and a 9 year old. All boys. So yeah...they seem to think it is pretty funny to make mom yell at one or all of them! I just look at them and tell them they are KILLIN ME! Simply Killin me!

My teenage daughter has always been pushing my buttons. My 4 year old, I don't know as to wheather or not he knows when I'm under stress.

Your kids don't have a "6th Sense", they are just doing something that most people don't do much anymore... they actually pay attention. ;~D

LOL-- My daughter seems to know when I'm stressed-- but usually she helps extra those days : ) She is only 10 though- She'll say mom how was your day? LOL-- then she just knows-- I'll set the table tonight-- Let me get the mail.. Oh I am going to do my homework right now without you asking- LOL I sure hope she doesn't change and start to push my buttons! If she does she might not make it to a teenager- LOL

I am the eldest in the family and i strongly agree that kids have a unique sense. I was very worried about my mom as my dad use to stay far away from us(his job was posted to a different city) so in the family my mom and me use to share responsibilities even tough i was very small. My mom till today respects me and is afraid of me because she use to tell me that i have a special sense of knowing things in advance. So, my sixth sense was very strong to know whats going on around with the family even if i was not told, and i believe others kids too had that sense.

I am not a mother but I now our mother always said us kids did. She would always yell at us for acting up when she was frazzled and always threatened to return us to the milkman.Thank God she never did,lol.

Same here...I think it starts in infancy, even babies can sense when there's something wrong, especially with their mother! It just grows from there!

Absolutely, kids are really good at sensing your moods. When you are happy they know and equally when your unhappy they know as well. Its really interesting to see how sympathetic kids are when you are sick or feeling depressed. As a school teacher the kids seem extra good when your sick as if they sense your not up to your usual self. kids are amazing.

they dont have any sixth sense because if they have then we know better about it because we were also kids in past and if they have it then we alos had it in past

i thnk kids just have a instinct or he feeling to know when their parents are stressed..because the kids are the one who know their parents, know what are the changes and the moods of their parents..so in that they can adjust to their parents according to their parents mood..

My kids are only 2 and 5 adn they already know how to wind me up already when I'm in a bad moood. I do though tell them that if they carry on they will get sent to their rooms as they are pushing me too far and I might hit out at them. They start behaving them. They have both learnt that being cute gets them more of what they want than being naughty.

I believe kids do like to push buttons but mostly because they have to see where their boundries are. Sometimes I believe that they like to see you frustrated as well.Usually when your frustrated they can get what they want because you just want to be left alone.