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Kids get pretty anxious over the holidays. It's a time of excitement and wonder, and they often have a hard time relaxing, staying calm and sleeping well.
Here are some tips to help your kids stay relaxed and on a healthy sleep schedule.
It's that wonderful time of year again: the holidays are almost upon us. We know it arrives at the same time every year, and yet it continues to sneak up on us. Your holiday preparations can be less stressful if you create a holiday countdown to halt the holiday madness.
It's that time of year again: the holidays are almost upon us. We know it arrives at the same time every year, and yet it sneaks up on us year after year. However, your holiday preparations don't have to be stressful if you create a holiday countdown, a checklist if you will, to halt the holiday madness.
What day does Thanksgiving fall on anyway? What about Christmas and New Years? What year is this and who's got the kids for the holidays?
You realize you are going to have to go dig out those divorce papers and see what year it is and if it's odd or even and if you get to see your children or if you'll be heading to Grandma's without your kids in tow.
The holiday season offers an opportunity to open our hearts to friends and relative, guests and strangers with warmth and generosity into our homes. It's important to differentiate between Martha Stewart-style entertaining, however, and biblical hospitality. Entertaining is often lavish, and done to impress others, and done so with the expectation that your equally or more lavish party will be reciprocated. Biblical hospitality, however, emphasizes the willingness to open your home to others and share what you have without any expectations of a return or a reward, with the goal of building relationships.
There is one thing about the gift giving whirlwind that will make a lasting impression - your credit card debt. That $500 or more you spent on all those things will follow you for months and possibly years to come. The toys will be long broken, lost, and stuck in storage, but you will still be paying for them, plus interest.
Everyone knows the equation: holidays = pressure + stress. Even when you try to reduce the stress, it's still stressful. Even when you're not being a host, just a guest, it's still stressful.
We often forget that the most important gift we can give to our children, family and others is the gift of ourselves. Our true authentic open hearted self. This requires you to be fully present in the moment with whomever you are with and whatever you are doing. It requires you to pause, lean into the moment, let go of the chaotic mind, and drop into your body feeling your feet firmly planted on the ground.
If you are like me and most other Americans this time of year is both exhilarating and a little anxiety producing. After all, you go all year watching what you eat, being conscientious and then... whamo.
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