Disciplining your kids with love and dignity

Parenting isn’t easy.  Some days can be wonderfully fulfilling and go just as planned while others quickly turn into a horror show.  Here are some tips and resources to help you manage the emotional ups and downs of parenting without losing your cool and help your kids regain theirs.  

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Gina Aguayo
Limiting Tech Time During COVID-19

Perhaps because of the current state of affairs, many of us are wondering if we are doing the “right” thing as parents: loosening screen time limits, allowing more freedom with social media (I’m letting my kids use tik tok?!), relaxing expectations for chores, getting dressed, and eating at meal times.  Right now the goal is to keep things moving forward in a relatively smooth manner.  And it can be done while still honoring your values, beliefs, and parenting expectations.

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Setting and Keeping a Schedule

Keeping to a schedule is hard at any time. Right now this is an even more difficult process. Setting up a schedule that works for you and your family may help to get things running more smoothly. It also helps structure the day and keep everyone more focused on the task at hand.

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Gina Aguayo
Finding a Therapist in Billerica, MA

Most people wait a long time before they seek out counseling. You are a self-sufficient person. You do your best. You use your coping skills. You talk to friends. You try exercise, maybe yoga. And it is only when everything you can think of doesn't work, that you reach out to see if therapy or counseling might help! 

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