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  • Adorn Your Holidays With Your Children's Decorations
    After a few Christmases, most families have boxes and boxes of holiday decorations that they pull out of storage, every year, as the Yuletide season blossoms. There are old pieces, handed down from parents, there are discarded ornaments that no one else wanted, there are knick-knacks that were bought at yard sales. Once they've been in storage awhile, most people forget the significance or origins of their decorations.
  • Keeping Christmas Morning Forever
    Parents of young children know that Christmas is one of the most important days of the year, in their kids' lives. Moms and dads everywhere do their best to make sure that Santa Claus knows exactly what to leave under the tree on Christmas morning. There are few sights as heartwarming to a parent as the look of delight on a child's face, as the bounty of Christmas is revealed. It's an event that every parent wants to make more wonderful, every year.
  • What Really Makes Christmas Special
    One thing most parents would agree on, as December makes its way onto the calendar, is that Christmas is a time when children are the focus of most families' lives. We may plan many activities throughout the holiday season, but Christmas itself must be a joyous holiday for our kids.
  • Charity Can Begin At Christmas
    The holiday season is once again in full swing, and Christmas is just around the corner. Parents everywhere are preparing to do battle in the toy stores, or online, in order to secure for their children the specific, perfect ingredients for a wonderful Christmas morning.
  • Christmas May Not Be The Best Time For A Puppy
    Santa Claus is overwhelmed, at this time of year, with all of the letters and lists coming in from children all over the world, asking to have their Christmas wishes fulfilled when he shimmies down their chimneys on his late-night sleigh-ride.
  • Families Sharing Holiday Duties
    Every year, we wonder how we can possibly make it through the Christmas holiday season with our sanity intact. There's just always too much to do, and the calendar seems to get filled in completely, from October through December.
  • Your Family's Holiday Traditions Are Worth Sharing
    Christmas is coming fast, and with it, the plans you make for your family and the traditions you observe, throughout the holiday season.
  • Merged Families At Christmas Present Challenges
    Not so long ago, the prevailing notion of a merged family was the "Brady Bunch", a pair of widowed spouses who found love and brought their two families together. It was rare. Today, though, with divorce a common factor in American life, the merged family is also growing more and more common.
  • Save Some Christmas Time And Money
    When we think of Christmas, fast approaching, our shopping is always at the forefront of our plans. It's always a wonderful feeling, to be finished finding and buying all of the necessary gifts for everyone on our lists. But there's one item that most of us don't think about until we need it, and then, that often means a quick, late-night trip to the store. For the wrapping paper we thought we had at home, but couldn't find.
  • Santa Can Be Your Training Helper
    Because of the instinct to survive that we're all born with, infants are natural attention-getters. Their crying signals need, and they gradually learn that crying can also be a way of attaining what they simply want. As children grow, one of the most challenging lessons parents must teach is the lesson of kindness and generosity.
  • What Happened To The Joy Of Winter?
    Remember how that first snow-fall made you feel, each year, when you were a child? That feeling was always somehow magical. With that falling snow was always the promise of the coming Christmas, and Santa Claus's midnight visit to the Christmas tree, where he'd leave those special toys, the ones you told him about in your letter.
  • Share The Gift Of A Christmas Story
    As joyous as the holiday season is, Christmas is also an increasingly expensive occasion for most families, today. Many families, who gather with their relatives at this time of year, are finding that alternative ways of gift-giving can make the financial impact of Christmas more bearable.
  • Make Sure Your Merry Christmas Is A Safe Christmas
    It's that time of year, again, and Christmas is fast approaching. For most families, the holiday season is the busiest time of the year. It's the time of year for parties and celebrations, family gatherings and school pageants, and of course, shopping and wrapping.

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