Parenting Resources
Youth Health and Safety Guide

This guide contains information and resources to support YOU in supporting youth. Articles about youth mental health, prevention resources, communication tips and much more. With articles featuring Tri-Town's own Charise Rohm Nulsen, Stephanie Meegan and Masconomet's Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA).
Middle School Transitions...Updated for 2022!
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Tri-Town Council (TTC) has assembled helpful info, tips and resources to support you and your tween’s transition into Middle School. We hope these articles and resources will offer information and help ease concerns as your child (and you) transition to this new phase of growth!
Transitioning to High School...

Resources for Parents/Guardians
of High School Graduates

Parents and guardians of high school graduates, new horizons await you and your grad! Whatever your child’s next chapter is - college and/or work, military service, or a gap year - we offer some resources to help you support them during this novel, interesting, and exciting phase of their lives.
Supporting the Transition to Kindergarten

Five Mistakes Every Kid Should be Allowed to Make

As parents our first inclination is to rush in and save our children when something goes wrong in their lives, or to shield them and prevent whatever the “bad” thing is from happening in the first place. Sadly, we all learn better through making our own mistakes. Sometimes watching the inevitable really does hurt us as parents more than it hurts them.
Top 15 Parenting Mistakes

#15 Your job is not to be cool or to be their friend. Your job is to be a parent; this means that sometimes you may not be cool in their eyes. It is age and stage appropriate that your kids hate you at times. If and when they do, we have to feel OK about this ---- meaning we may not like it, but we cannot take it personally.
Real Parents, Real Talk About Kids And Screens

We live in a world of screens. And in this digital age — with so many devices and distraction — it's one of the things parents worry about most: How much time should their kids spend staring at their phones and computers? What's the right balance between privacy and self-discovery?
Are You a Distracted Parent?

In Highlights Magazine’s annual State of the Kid Survey, a nationally representative sample of 6- to 12- year olds were asked, “Are your parents ever distracted when you are trying to talk to them?” 62 percent of children said yes, and, when asked, “What distracts them?” - the most frequently mentioned distractor was cell phones (28%) followed by siblings (25%) and work (16%).