{"id":754138,"date":"2026-06-23T02:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754138\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:39:14","slug":"counselors-carrying-consistency-into-summer-is-key-to-reduce-family-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754138\/","title":{"rendered":"Counselors: Carrying consistency into summer is key to reduce family conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 School is out for kids across Tennessee which means the routines could be a little out of whack. Local groups are offering advice on how to maintain a routine to prevent things from going awry.<\/p>\n<p>Youth Villages counselor Chloe Brownell says simple things like keeping a consistent bed time and morning alarm clock can make a difference. She adds carrying weekly staples like family dinner can help with a more seamless transition, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think with school being out, a lot of the structure of like normal wake up time and breakfast, routine, things like that kind of go out the window. And so a lot that is really helpful, though, to prevent conflict. And so if we can keep as much routine as possible and just build some consistency on expectations,&#8221; Brownell tells FOX17 News\u2019 Johnny Maffei.<\/p>\n<p>When conflict occurs, the adults need to act like adults and remove themselves from the situation temporarily to calm down, if necessary, she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the resources Youth Villages provides <a href=\"https:\/\/youthvillages.org\/services\/foster-care\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=search&amp;utm_campaign=foster_mid_english&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22763713805&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAoKVYg_o3ZZ_ZcOTlpcNd96G894Mp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 School is out for kids across Tennessee which means the routines could be a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-754138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}