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  • Christmas - A Season Of Forgiveness
    This is the time of year when the magic of Christmas is everywhere. Everything about the season is designed to be exciting and heartwarming, and full of joy for everyone in the family. But children are the most excited by the season, usually, as they wait for that most wonderful night, Christmas Eve, when Santa Claus lands his sleigh on the roof and brings his bag of beautiful things down the chimney and leaves them under the tree.
  • Must We Avoid All That Great Christmas Food?
    No matter how many holiday seasons pass, each one seems to start earlier, than the last. September which has always meant the beginning of autumn, the football season, and cool days, now means the first appearance of Santa Claus, in many stores and commercials.
  • Can Santa Claus Find Us, If We're Not Home?
    To parents, the holiday season may mean parties, music and pageantry, as well as a whirlwind of Christmas-themed activities, from Thanksgiving until Christmas Day. To their youngest children, the holiday season means planning for one thing-Santa Claus's Christmas Eve flight and visit. And every child understands that Santa Claus knows exactly where to leave the toys and goodies he's bringing, because he knows where every child lives.
  • Thoughtful Grandparenting At Christmas
    Every family knows that the magic of Christmas is never more alive than when celebrated through the lives of their children. The colors, the lights, the music, and the pageants are all wonderul, but even more special when we can experience them with our children. A child can make the whole family's Christmas brighter.
  • Holiday Air Travel With Children
    As Santa Claus prepares his sleigh for his Christmas Eve flight, children everywhere wait in anticipation for the goodies he'll leave for them. Parents of younger children, especially, have learned to enjoy Christmas just a bit more, by watching it arrive through their childrens' eyes. One thing that can dampen a parent's holiday spirit, though, is the prospect of holiday air travel.
  • Keeping Christmas Alive
    The holiday season always seems like a whirlwind of shopping, parties, pageants, and family gatherings, a month or two of furious, but joyful, activity, leading up to Christmas and the New Year celebration. By the time it's all over, most of us need a breather, a bit of time to relax and reflect and renew.
  • Keeping The Christmas Budget
    As Christmas approaches, we can't help but feel the excitement and anticipation of the season, as the decorations go up, and the carols play, and the air turns colder. It's a season of pageantry and parties, lots of good food and fellowship, and renewed relationships with family and friends. Christmas is also the time that Santa Claus makes his annual visit, leaving lots of presents and goodies for all the good boys and girls.
  • Children And Family Gatherings
    The Christmas season is full of wonderful events that don't occur during the rest of the year. Besides all of the religious services and school pageants and civic events, most extended families have at least one large gathering, where a feast is prepared and presents are exchanged. It can be a wonderful time to renew relationships and reacquaint with family members from near and far.
  • Children's Holiday Crafts
    It's the time of year when we haul those boxes down from the attic, or up from the basement, or out of the garage, and pull out those Christmas ornaments and decorations that have been tucked away for the past eleven months. We collect these things, over the years, either buying them ourselves, or receiving them as gifts. Though certain ornaments or decorations may have had sentimental attachment, at one time, after a few years we put them up on the mantle or hang them from the tree, with little thought of their original meaning.
  • Save The Memories Of Christmas Morning
    Every parent understands the importance of Christmas morning in a child's life. It's the goal of most moms and dads to help St. Nick make the day as perfect as they can. The joy a child expresses at finding the mound of toys and goodies left under the tree by Santa Claus is something that makes every parent smile. Every Christmas is the same, for most parents-they want it to be perfect, for their kids.
  • Staying At Home This Christmas
    Remember looking forward to the holiday season? Remember, when you were a child, the anticipation of Santa Claus's visit and how your mom and dad seemed to have all the time in the world to make your Christmas perfect? Times have changed, haven't they? Especially for young families, today, the holiday season has just become way too busy.
  • A Child's Second Christmas
    Young couples tend face that first Christmas with their newborns, as though it's a holiday that will never occur, again. Of course, that first one won't ever occur, again, but there will likely be years and years of happy family holidays ahead. Still, first-time parents this year will probably over-spend on toys which will probably be ignored by their child, in favor of the boxes they came in.
  • Santa's Helpers Can Make Mistakes, Too
    If you're a parent with a young child-a child who's just old enough to appreciate the fact that Santa Claus is coming-then the Christmas season is something you might face with equal parts of joyful anticipation and dread. On the one hand, you can't wait to help Jolly Old St. Nick make your child's Christmas morning the most perfect day of the year. On the other hand, there's that constant gnawing in the pit of your gut that maybe, in your shopping haste, you got everything wrong.
  • Have A Volunteer Christmas With Your Child
    Though every family has its own way of celebrating the Christmas holiday, Santa Claus seems to be a part of every young child's perfect Christmas. He's such an innate part of our holiday culture, it's impossible for little ones, today, to avoid learning about Santa's flying sleigh and his midnight visit to the chimney. Still, some parents worry that placing too much emphasis on what Santa will leave under the tree encourages greediness in their children.
  • Big Sisters And Brothers And Santa Claus
    It's one thing to have little children at Christmastime, and to prepare for Santa and his visit. But many families have younger kids, who still wait anxiously for the reindeer-led sleigh to hit the roof on Christmas Eve, and older teenagers, who would rather die than admit that they ever believed in Santa Claus.
  • Visitors At Christmas
    Families tend to create their own peculiar habits. This is perhaps most evident during the holidays, when most families follow the formula they've developed, over the years, for acknowledging Christmas and marking the season. In a season which can be crazy and busy and full of surprises, it's a family's method of creating a familiar way to celebrate.
  • Avoiding The Holiday Bulge
    As much as we love the onset of the holiday season every year, most of us know that one of the pitfalls of Christmas is the extra weight we put on, from eating all that wonderful food. There are so many parties and gatherings, with so many gorgeous and sugar-filled treats, most of us tend to sigh and accept the fact that we'll gain a few extra pounds.
  • Expressing Thanks At Christmas Can Start Early
    Every parent knows how dangerous it can be to stand between a five-year-old and a pile of unopened presents under the Christmas tree, on Christmas morning. And once the present-opening frenzy has begun, every parent knows that attempting to interrupt a child, who's tearing wrapping paper, could lead to serious injury.
  • Parents Can Pool Their Time To Help Each Other At Christmas
    There's nothing more wonderful than watching a child, particularly your own child, as the anticipation of Santa Claus's visit turns into the reality of Christmas morning. Whatever stress parents have felt, throughout the holiday season, will vanish with the joy that's reflected in their childrens' eyes.
  • The Constant Christmas Question
    Most parents would agree that the magic of Christmas is found in their childrens' eyes. And as we hurtle toward the holiday season, again, filled with plans for gatherings and galas, moms and dads everywhere are trying to plan the perfect Christmas for their kids.
  • Maybe Santa Could Use Your Help
    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.
  • A Christmas Kitten Is Not A Toy
    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.
  • Our Pets Need Holiday Attention, Too
    This is a season which seems to be full of holidays. From Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas, it seems as though we just move from one celebration to another. One of the most wonderful aspects of the season is that it's a time for celebrating the love and the closeness and the fellowship of our families.
  • Help Your Fellow Parents This Christmas
    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.
  • Sharing Christmas Joy
    You're probably already planning this year's holiday celebrations. They will probably center around the gathering of your family, to share the fellowship and the love which this season always promises to bring.
  • Newyly Formed Families Mean New Christmas Traditions
    Modern society has undergone many changes in the past several decades. The changes in the way we view family, itself, have been striking. With divorce and remarriage more common than ever before, the idea of the combined family is no longer unusual. And as families combine, so do their traditions.
  • Axe The Paper, Save A Christmas Tree
    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's Opinion Matters
    Most young children develop as demanding little beings, who cry when they need anything, from food to a changed diaper. As they grow, parents must teach them compassion, generosity and the rewards that come from treating others with kindness. Not an easy task, at all.
  • 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.
  • Delight Your Family At Christmas With A Gift From The Heart
    To many families, today, Christmas spending is becoming overwhelming. And, as families expand, through marriage and new births, the burden grows even larger. For this reason, many families find the need to seek new and alternative ways of creating and exchanging cost-free gifts, particularly for large family get-togethers.
  • Make Sure Your Merry Christmas Is A Safe Christmas
    The Christmas season is one of the busiest times of the year for all families. Among other things, besides the shopping, there's the wrapping, the list-making, the party planning, and, for many families, travel arrangements. And it just goes on, seemingly without end.
  • Let Your Kids Be An Important Part Of The Holiday Celebration
    When the Christmas season approaches, parents begin to plan all the activities that make this the most special time of the year. And most parents center their plans around those activities and celebrations which will make the holidays extra special for their kids. Parents live for the joy they find in their childrens' eyes on Christmas morning, after Santa has made his visit, so, no matter how hard it may be, moms and dads everywhere are willing to put up with the stress of making the holidays happen perfectly.
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