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  • 10 Tips for a Peaceful Holiday Season: Helping Kids Relax - 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.
  • 12 Days of Holiday Organizing - 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.
  • 12 Days of Holiday Organizing: Countdown to A Successful Celebration - 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.
  • A Mom and Dad's Holiday Survival Guide - Take physical safety precautions, mental safety precautions, involve your children in the preparation of the festivities, create special traditions and rituals, reduce your expectations, seek social support for the holiday blues & give yourself a gift.
  • Charity or Scam? - You want to help those who are less fortunate. That's good. And you're not alone. According to the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, giving in the U.S. by individuals rose to $135 billion in 1998.
  • Christmas Gift Challenge - "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." You can tell because everywhere you go someone is trying to sell you something! Stores began decorating weeks ago and the TV commercials are starting to have that Christmas flavor, too. So what's a person to do? Well, you could go 'bah humbug' and hide until January or you could try taking the "Christmas Gift Challenge".
  • Christmas Time and Cultural Traditions - Christmas is a holiday celebrated around the world. Many of the old world customs are still carried out in America. Swedish families start their Christmas celebrations on December 13th, St. Lucia's Day.
  • December Birthdays - December is a wonderful time for parties - for grownups! A little eggnog and a plate of cookies and your grownup party is swinging. For the little ones, a little more planning and forethought is required, but you can still create a happy holiday party.
  • Great Holiday Gifts for the Green Thumb on Your List - As the official gardening season comes to a close, gift giving season is heating up. That means it�s time to find just the right tool or toy for every gardener and yard care fanatic on your list. We�ve weeded through what�s new and found the cream of the gifting crop.
  • Helping Children of Divorce Through The Holiday Season - 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.
  • Holiday Cheer via your VCR - Some of my fondest childhood Christmas memories involve watching holiday classics with my family and enjoying hot chocolate and Christmas cookies (most of my fond memories involved some sort of cookie).
  • Holiday Open House: Open Your Heart and Your Home - 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.
  • Holidays & Exercise - They Can Go Together! - I was all set to help you plan your own home-based exercise program. One you could live with. One that would truly work. Then it hit me. The full brunt of the holiday season.
  • Keep the Joy, Ditch the Debt: Smart Spending During the Holidays - 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.
  • Make Money This Holiday Season; Don't Just Spend It - What if you could make more money than you spend this holiday season? Sounds like a pretty good idea, you say? If you'd like to be on the making money end during the holidays, now is the time to start preparing. Below I'm going to give you several money-making ideas. Pick the one or two that interest you the most and have fun!
  • Special, Inexpensive Gift Ideas - Being on a tight budget, normally we make most of our Christmas gifts. Over the years I've found that you can come up with a more personal, and more appreciated gift this way. I wanted to share a few ideas that we are using this year that are great for last minute gifts.
  • The Fail-Safe Holiday Diet Plan - 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.
  • The Five Best Gifts to Give Your Family - When we think of giving gifts, we usually think of things to buy for people. Yet if you think back on gifts you�ve been given, it might not be the material gifts you received that are foremost in your mind - it might be the kind of gifts that deeply touched your heart and soul. It might be various ways, other than material things, that people expressed their love to you.
  • The Heart of Christmas: The Gift of Being - 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.
  • Wacky Christmas Facts - Have you ever wondered when the first Christmas lights were invented? Or what happens when a Christmas tree is cut down?
  • What Do Kids Really Want For Christmas? - Parents are spending an average of $200 per child this Christmas. Is receiving gifts really all kids want though? Or are they looking for something that doesn't really cost much but your time?
  • Your Recovery Kit for Holiday Eating - 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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