Holiday Survival Kit

Family eating Thanksgiving dinner Find ideas and advice for parents on surviving the holiday season. Learn how to rediscover the meaning of the holidays, keep the holidays safe, avoid holiday stress, and get to where you're going with your sanity intact.

Making the Holidays Meaningful
Read our advice on finding meaning during the holiday season.
Menorahs, Mistletoe, and the Meaning of Holidays
Separate Hanukkah from Christmas
Celebrate an Interfaith Holiday
Creating Christmas Traditions
Create New Holiday Traditions
Teach Kids to Give in the Season of Greed
Top 10 Ways to Spread Christmas Cheer
Top 10 Ways to Be Gracious and Giving This Thanksgiving
Holiday Travel
These tips will make the trip a little easier!
Tips for Thanksgiving Travel
How to Cope When Kids Fly Alone
How to Survive a Looooong Car Ride
Advice from Parents: Trip Tips and Activities
Advice from Parents: Traveling with Babies and Toddlers
Expert Advice
See what the experts say about dealing with holiday dilemmas.
When Should You Break the News about Santa?
How Can You Keep Grandma from Spoiling Your Kids?
Whose House for the Holidays: Your Parents or His?
Holiday Safety
Keep your family safe this holiday season.
Tree, Light, and Fireplace Safety
Toy Safety
Top 10 Turkey Day Calamities and How to Avoid Them
Ideas to Help You Chill
Beat your holiday stress with these helpers for parents.
Stress Busters
Holiday Tips for Single Parents
Ideas from Parents: Stress Relievers

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Create Your Own Jack-O'-Lantern
We can help! Use our fun Jack-O'-Lantern Creator tool to make your very own spooky or silly jack-o'-lantern design. Print it out as a guide to carve the perfect Halloween pumpkin, or just let the little ones color it in. Sponsored by Madagascar 2. Watch the trailer here.

Kids and Whole Grains
Are you stumped when it comes to getting your kids to eat whole grains? Or do you have some of your own tips to share? Join in on our discussion!

Find Balance in Your Kids' Diet
The Balanced Meal Planner is a fun interactive tool that can help you plan a healthy, balanced diet for your family, based on the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid. Sponsored by Smucker's, home of more tasty ideas for kids.

Tired of the Breakfast Wars?
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Show Your Kids the Power of Voting
Help your kids understand the importance of the presidential-election process by giving them the chance to cast their very own vote in the 2008 race! Encourage your child's school to get involved in the National Student/Parent Mock Election on October 30, 2008.