Holiday Parenting Tips: Creating a New Normal for Divorcing and Separated Parents

As if the holidays weren't stressful enough, they present additional challenges for separated, divorced and divorcing parents, especially when the separation has just happened.

There are 3 things at work:

• Holiday Anxiety in General

• Adapting to Changes in Your Family

• Missing Your Children

Holiday Anxiety: Even the smoothest holidays are stressful. There's cooking, cleaning, shopping, entertaining, parties and school vacations. That's a lot of stress, even if it's fun stress. How to manage? http://bit.ly/bX0owT

via Diana Mercer: Holiday Parenting Tips: Creating a New Normal for Divorcing and Separated Parents.