Virtual Event: Good Enough Holidays: Regulation, Rupture, and Repair During High-Stress Family Seasons

**Live Attendance Required to earn CEUs** (complete all requirements within 30 days of event). 

Health and Development Risk and Protective Factors: how and why multiple factors—including community, economic, political, and cultural influences—support or impede healthy development and the quality of relationships; and ways to work with families to identify strengths and use them as resources to reinforce protective factors, help manage challenges, and reduce risks

Good Enough Holidays: Regulation, Rupture, and Repair During High-Stress Family Seasons

December 9, 2026, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Special Member Exclusive follow-on discussion, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

he holidays can bring joy and connection, but also disrupted routines, heightened expectations, and plenty of opportunities for families with young children to become overwhelmed.

Join your VME host, Katrina Macasaet, for candid stories from families and the professionals who support them. Together, you will explore how families navigate seasonal stress and what helps when emotions run high and relationships fall out of sync.

Come away with practical, relationship-based strategies you can use immediately to support regulation and repair, while helping families let go of the “perfect” holiday in favor of one that is connected, responsive, and good enough.

Learner objectives: As a result of participating in this event, learners will be able to… 

• Recognize at least two ways that seasonal stressors can influence young children’s regulation and parent-child interactions
• Select a relationship-based response that supports regulation and repair while respecting each family’s traditions, circumstances, and priorities

Member Exclusive w/ZERO TO THREE, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Member-Exclusive Take-It-Back Lab: ZERO TO THREE members are invited to stay with VME host Katrina Macasaet for an additional 30-minute Take-It-Back Lab. Members will adapt ideas from the event into a simple, practical resource they can use in conversations with families during high-stress seasons. Together, they will identify language that reduces pressure, supports regulation and repair, and honors each family’s traditions, circumstances, and priorities. Members will leave with a personalized tool ready to use in their own setting.

**Live Attendance Required** (complete within 30 days of event). All registrants will have 30-day access to the session recording.

ZERO TO THREE is pleased to offer Continuing Education Units for a wide range of learning events, both in person and on line.

Contact hours and CEUs are automatically added to your registration for no additional charge. Registrants can earn up to 0.1 CEU or 1 Contact hour for attending this event. Continuing Education Units are awarded with live attendance, completed session evaluation, and a passing quiz score of 75% or greater. 

Learner Objectives:

• Recognize at least two ways that seasonal stressors can influence young children’s regulation and parent-child interactions
  
• Select a relationship-based response that supports regulation and repair while respecting each family’s traditions, circumstances, and priorities

Contact hours offered may vary per discipline. For more information regarding ZERO TO THREE CEUs, please visit: https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/1657-earn-ceus-from-zero-to-three. Please note: A computer or electronic device with internet connection is required for successful completion. This session will be hosted for one hour and includes a brief introduction, 45 mins of content based teaching, and 10 to 15 minutes of Q and A. Questions can be posted throughout the session, and the presenter will address as many as possible. 

Additional Details:

ZERO TO THREE is accredited as an Authorized Provider of Continuing Education and Training by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). In obtaining this accreditation, we have demonstrated compliance with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As the official standard for continuing education and training, IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are recognized by a wide range of organizations, including professional associations, regulatory boards, corporations, and universities.

Though IACET CEUs are widely accepted, it is up to each organization to choose whether or not it will accept them. For this reason, we strongly advise that you confirm in advance if a particular body accepts IACET CEUs. To view a list of companies, regulatory boards, and organizations that have reported to accept the IACET CEU credit, please click here. This list is not exhaustive, nor does it guarantee that an IACET CEU will automatically be accepted. 

*Presenters have affirmed that they do not have proprietary interest in products, instruments, devices, services or materials discussed in this course, and have confirmed that they have not been compensated in relation to this presentation.