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• Is This Why We Escalate the Holidays?

  Is some of the holiday excess we see a symptom of parents trying to recapture the thrill of introducing a special time to their youngest kids? Read More... Posted Dec 24 2008, 12:01 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: christmas, santa, advent calendar, presents, gifts, holidays, grandparents, excess, holiday travel, Hanukkah, snow, carols, solstice, wonder, first holidays, nativity scene, parental foresight, musings, creche, inadequecy, excitement

• Babble Talk: Staying Home and Skipping the Santa Myth

  All around me it seems, my peers and my fellow Babble writers are exploring putting their collective feet down about holiday traditions. Perhaps it's that we feel emboldened to declare our own rules once our kids start getting older, or maybe it's just time for a little generational power shift. Who knows. Read More... Posted Dec 21 2008, 04:10 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with no comments Filed under: christmas, santa, santa claus, presents, gifts, family, babble talk, lying, visiting, Bad Parent, holiday travel, relatives, in-laws, Jeanne Sager, Sasha Brown-Worsham, mall santas, La Befana, Holle, St. Nicholas

• So You're Traveling By Plane for Thanksgiving. Good Luck, Suckahhhhhs.

  This week, as the reality and panic that Thanksgiving is officially measurable in hours away, all the well-meaning and authoratatively-written "insider" articles and posts start popping up in an attempt to quell the fears and franticness of flying on the busiest travel day of the year. I'm a sucker for these tips -- as a parent who has hauled my kid, a carseat, a diaper bag, a breast pump, a purse and tickets clutched in a fisthold down the unbearably narrow aisles of many airplanes on many cross-country trips during the holiday season -- and I will search them for a bit of new information like millions of other travelers in search of ways to informatively beat the effed up airline system. Mostly, though, I just laugh. Why? Read More... Posted Nov 19 2007, 02:33 PM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: traveling with kids, holidays, travel advice, thanksgiving, holiday travel, sanity