Family Guide and Parenting Tips

Making this decision is difficult, especially for the children who suffer most when things go wrong in the family. These dates, time to remember the past are especially difficult for everyone. On the one hand, children most noticeable absences and differences from previous years and the other, Christmas is also a time of year especially hard for parents because they trigger discursiveness with their former partners to prevent children’s absences.

Against this background, it is best to try to normalize the situation, setting up patterns of conductance help all stakeholders to manage this complicated emotional situation.
Distribution of children in special dates

Christmas separated parents

Ensure that children spend time with both parents is critical to feel close to both the love of his father and his mother. It is also essential that both parents do everything in their power for their children to fully enjoy Christmas as they did before. If children already have discretion to choose from, you can take into account their preferences about how to split the days. But it is best to be the parents who make the decisions, because the child can be taken as a very personal choice, appearing to be wanting more to one than another when both are their parents. With the decision already made, the child will not feel guilty.

Respect the traditions also help children to take the issue dates more naturally. For example, it will be easier to relate the Christmas Eve with the maternal grandmother’s house, Christmas day opening gifts at home Mom or New Year’s Eve with the paternal grandparents, if ever has been. Eventually, the parent company loses the child should avoid being upset or sad. It is advisable to try to encourage your child to have a good time and enjoy your vacation with another family. It is also desirable to allow the other parent sits by his son by telephone, for example, to congratulate the New Year or tell what you have brought the Magi.
The fight for Christmas gifts

Compete to acquire the best gift for children is a mistake. Try to buy his love with material things is dangerous and has its counterpart. Although at the time, we are happy watching them enjoy long-term relationship we can convert the materialistic and interested. Children can become manipulative and stop spending time with us, for example, if you do not give away things constantly. To avoid undesirable manipulation or comparisons, it is best to agree with the other gifts that children will receive and distribute its cost without entering competitions.

Celebrate Christmas with your children

Create a festive atmosphere at home with Christmas decorations, singing Christmas carols and activities specific to these dates. It is important to seek the welfare of children, avoiding the feeling of emptiness, though, if the separation has taken place recently, do not have the body for parties. To do this, set aside time for the Christmas tree or Bethlehem, Christmas cooking a recipe together, listen to carols and games to hang out with cousins ??or grandparents. The most important thing for children is living in a relaxed Christmas, without trouble, or discussions. The best gift is a happy Christmas.

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