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Parenting During the Holiday Season: 3 Tips from 3 Psychologists for Tackling Holiday Stress

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Parenting is hard enough on a normal day but in most cases, children have the daily structure of school, extracurricular activities, and other scheduled events that help parents get through any given day. But the holidays, as much as we look forward to them, don’t often provide the structured scaffolding that children usually have. And in some ways, that’s the point of the holidays – to provide children (and adults) a break from routine and allow them to enjoy their time off.

ADAA recently presented with our partner and institutional member Alvord Baker & Associates on how to alleviate holiday stress. In this brief webinar, three psychologists from Alvord Baker & Associates responded to our audience’s questions about how to make the holidays meaningful and fun while keeping stress and anxiety levels low.

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