How to Protect Your Peace During the Holidays (Parent Edition)
Nov 20, 2025
The holiday season often asks parents to carry an emotional load that is heavier than usual. Between managing schedules, navigating family dynamics, preparing meals, and keeping traditions alive, it is easy to feel stretched thin. Protecting your peace is not selfish; it is essential for creating a calmer environment for you and your family.
Here are a few intentional ways to support yourself this season.
If it feels like your teen has an entire life online, friends, group chats, fandoms, and gaming communities, you’re not imagining it. Today’s teens grow friendships both in person and through screens, and for many of them, online relationships feel just as real as offline ones.
Understanding this shift can help you support them with empathy instead of worry.
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As the year comes to a close, many parents feel a mix of emotions. Relief that the year is ending. Gratitude for moments that went well. And often, quiet exhaustion from everything it took to get here.
Before jumping into goals, plans, or resolutions, this is an invitation to pause.
The end of the year does not need to be about fixing yourself or your family. It can be about reflecting with ho...
It’s easy to approach digital safety from a place of fear. We worry about the risks: screens, social media, AI, strangers, content…and the list goes on.
But here’s the tricky part: when we teach from fear, kids either shut down or tune out.
They need guidance that feels steady, not scary.
Here’s how to teach digital responsibility in a way that builds awareness, confidence, and trust.
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