6 Holiday Family Traditions for Families with Young Children

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Holiday Family Traditions: How to Enjoy the Holidays with Your Kids

The holidays come with ample helpings of both fun and stress. Sometimes it’s easy to get lost in buying gifts, planning meals, organizing events and visiting relatives. But ultimately kids will remember the family traditions that brought everyone closer together as a family, not what they received for Christmas that year. With that in mind, here are some ideas for traditions that will stay with your kids for years to come.

How to Help Others During the Holidays

Ideas for Helping Others During the Holidays

As the holidays approach, parents are busy planning for the time off, meals, and fun. Families are thinking about how to spend their time. Most families enjoy an array of delicious food with choices like turkey or ham (or both), cake or pie, stuffing, rolls, etc. For other families, there may not be as many choices because personal challenges have limited their ability and opportunities for holiday fun.

10 Tips for a Healthy Halloween

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How to Stay Healthy at Halloween

October is a tough time for those looking to keep their healthy eating on track (the caramel apples are kind of healthy, right?)  We all know how sinfully delicious Halloween can be – and as your little goblins go wild for treats on October 31stbut that doesn’t mean you [and your healthy diet] have to! You can still have a healthy Halloween!

Dietitian Kimberly Gomer from the renowned health center Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa has created 10 family-friendly Spooktacular Tips to keep in mind this Halloween. Solving every craving from Halloween parties to shopping for candy, these tricky (and tasty!) tips are great for everyone to keep in mind when enjoying their treats this season.

1.  Buy candy you don’t like.

Love Snickers bars? Leave them on the store shelf. Otherwise, you can bet you’ll be breaking into that bag days before the costumed kiddies arrive at your doorstep. (And let’s not even talk about what happens if there are Snickers left over at the end of the evening.) Buy candy that does not call out to you, and on November 1, throw any leftovers out or take them to a homeless shelter.