During this holiday season, the important fact to focus on is that you, as parents, are creating memories for your children. Let us not forget celebrating the holidays leaves a lot of room to be creative. And you don't need a lot of money. With the onset of the holiday season, our emotions get stirred by past memories and fears about the future.
Holidays tend to bring up a lot of resolved or unresolved emotions.
Gratitude means feelings blessed for who you are, what you have experienced and what it is you have in our lives. And when you experience gratitude, you model that to your children, and they begin to see their glass as half full, too. Something wonderful and healing my son and I will do this holiday season is to look around his room, gather up all the toys he never plays with and probably won't play with, and box them up. Then we take the boxes to a hospital or center for needy children. On an adult level, you can do the same thing.