Whatever holidays you might celebrate, Santa envy is real. Here are some helpful tips for how to deal with Christmas when you don’t do Christmas.

How to explain Christmas to your Jewish kid

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Religion

Family

Let us help navigate daily life with your growing family, with everything from kids’ craft and activity ideas to advice on discipline and birthday party inspiration.

Parenting

It seems fundamentally wrong to say that something’s real with the intention of, later down the road, revealing it was all just one big, fat, jolly lie.

My six&#x2d;year&#x2d;old’s questions about Christmas have me seriously stumped

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Holiday

We never told our kids Santa was coming down the chimney because he wasn't. Every family needs to decide how to tell kids about Santa.

How to tell your kids about Santa: This family decided not to

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Imagine all your hard work keeping the magic alive being destroyed by family movie night! Here are some Christmas movies that could do just that.

10 Christmas movies that spoil the Santa surprise for kids

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Indoor Activities

There's nothing like quality time with your family. We’ve got fun ideas for indoor games, camping and travel tips, holiday crafts, and everything in between.

Activities

Blindly following this tradition made me ignore all the usual ways I respected and protected my child

What I learned after forcing my baby to sit on Santa’s lap

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3 tips for getting a great picture with Santa

I still need my big kid to believe in Santa

I’m not telling my big kid the truth about Santa

Kids with autism and other sensory sensitivities don't have to miss out on meeting with Santa. Here's where they can still meet a Sensitive Santa in 2018.

Sensitive Santa is coming to town—in a Canadian city near you

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Autism

This truly is the real nightmare before Christmas.

Watch these kids take a photo with Halloween's version of Santa

Halloween

Blogs

There’s nothing wrong about a little white lie to keep my kids happy—right?

Kids

Research from the '70s and from experts today demonstrate that kids' belief in Santa continues to drop off around the same age.

This is the age that kids stop believing in Santa

Your kid just asked if the big man in red actually comes down the chimney every year, and you're panicking. Here's how to answer without ruining Christmas.

3 ways to keep the Christmas magic alive after the Talk

Everything you need to know about kids and toddlers, including behaviour and development, sleep, potty training, preschool, and how to handle picky eaters.

These families are usually in and out of the hospital but these special flights in search of Santa let them make lasting holiday memories

Santa made a stop in the sky for these special kids

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You have to read this kid's epic Santa letter—a scathing indictment of the man in red and the entire North Pole establishment.

This kid is so done with Santa

"Leveraging Christmas runs counter to the very point of the holiday, which should be more about generosity, goodwill and love."

Why I don't use Santa as a bribe for good behaviour

Behaviour

Learn how to discipline your preschoolers and toddlers:  Tips and tactics that work, whether or not to spank, and how to manage different parenting styles.

Discipline

Prince William hand delivered Prince George’s Christmas list to Santa and it’s so cute—and his handwriting is pretty impressive.

You’ve got to see Prince George’s Christmas list to Santa

Prince William

There are tears, smiles and some seriously indifferent faces! Check out these celebrity kids meeting jolly old St. Nick.

20 priceless photos of celebrity kids with Santa

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Halloween 2016: 46 adorable celebrity kids all dressed up

The baby was nestled all snug in Santa’s lap…

5 ways your kid can talk to Santa this Christmas

Couple mistakenly receives hundreds of letters to Santa and responds to ALL of them

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Ho, ho, ho! Santa’s streaming the North Pole on Facebook Live

When one child believes in Santa and the other doesn't

Ho, ho, ho! Santa's on social media and he's streaming the North Pole on Facebook Live

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When you're Jewish but your kid loves Santa

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