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Parenting Sucks: Surviving Holiday Travel
Posted By Karen Young On November 4, 2009 @ 12:36 am In Family,parenting sucks,spotlight | No Comments
BY JOANNE KIMES
Dear Joanne,
Now that Halloween is over, I’m already dreading the holidays. Each year we visit my family during Thanksgiving, and my husband’s family for Christmas. With two kids under the age of 5, the stress of traveling takes the fun out of the holidays. Any ideas?
Debra
Dear, dear Debra,
Oh, how I feel your pain. In generations past, all we did to get to grandmother’s house was go over the river and through the woods. Now holiday travel involves planes, trains, and cars (not to mention gridlock traffic and endless security lines at the airport). Mix that with car seats, strollers, and diaper bags to schlep around, and bored kids who are overtired due to time zone confusion, and you have yourself a very sucky holiday season! I wish there was a magical elf who could zap the stress away, but there’s not. So, until your kids are old enough to zone out for hours in front of iPods or game systems, here are a few ideas to make the holidays a little less sucky:
There you go, Debra. A few suggestions on how to survive holiday travel with kids. If none of the above sound like they’ll help, try my last, and best idea: STAY HOME! When little kids are involved, make family and friends come to you. True, having houseguests is a whole different ball of holiday wax stress, but at least you won’t have to leave your house.
Joanne Kimes is the author of the bestselling “Sucks” series as well as “The Stay-at-Home Martyr.” Visit her at www.sucksandthecity.com Her latest tome, “Divorce Sucks,” with Mary Jo Eustace, the woman whose husband left her for Tori Spelling, has been making waves in the press and the book signing circuit.
Email her questions: jkimes@sbcglobal.net
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