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What Are Your Favorite Movies for Kids?
Are you talking about Christmas ones or every day ones? For Christmas, my boys love Christmas Story and the Grinch. For every day movies, they like just ...
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- I have two boys (7 and 5yrs old) so in our house we have a wide variety of movies. We do our best to keep as many questionable movies out. We screen the movies before ...
- Classic - The Sand Lot (the original version). My son likes anything superhero. At Target they had all the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve.
- When my sons were under 8 years old, they enjoyed; The Jungle Book (Disney cartoon movie), The Snowman; by Raymond Briggs, (musical cartoon)and The Little Prince (musi...
White Elephant Gift Exchange Game
When the story ends, that is the gift you end up with. The story: .... You can re-write the story however you want. ... Christmas Story · money on internet ...
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- One side of my family had a "garage sale" gifting. We drew names and knew who we were buying for and then we could only spend $1 on the gift. Sometimes, we had the sam...
- The right/left game that someone mentioned below really is a fun way to do a white elephant gift exchange! You can re-write the story however you want. You could eve...
- As a number of people have already suggested, we always play the game of purchasing a $10-20 gift and putting all the wrapped gifts in a pile. Everyone draws a number...
Special Holiday Ideas
Even when I was a child, the tradition was to race down the stairs and dive into the presents...similar to the classic "A Christmas Story". ...
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- My son is only 2, but something that I have always wanted to do and plan to do is, before he opens any presents, we are going to start Christmas the way it should be s...
- Make it about tradition. We create Advent Rings and the kids can tear off one by one. Also, Christmas PJ's, they wear the night before. The other thing to remember ...
- So far you have good ideas. But I like to stress that it is giving of yourself (not objects or money). So with my 2 boys (4 yrs and 24 years and married) I have them...
Santa Claus
Last Night he was watching A Toy Story when it ended at Christmas time and the ..... Even without the stories, Christmas for me has always been about the ...
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- When I realized my oldest, now turning 13, was questioning about Santa almost 3 years ago, it made me sick. He and I sat down, and I asked him what his thoughts were ...
- In our house we have a rule "If you believe, you will recieve." Even our 13 year old knows the truth, but it is unspoken at our house, only those who "believe" will re...
- I would probably tell him the truth and explain that it's the spirit of Santa, and not that his siblings still believe and that it wouldn't be nice to spoil it for the...
Christmas Gift Ideas
Another great idea would be to get the recordable story book at Hallmark. They are christmas books and you record yourself reading each page. ...
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- K., I understand the "don't need anything"...that's how both of my girls are because their birthdays are in sept and oct. But I do remember my daughter really liked...
- How about books, coloring books with crayons, or even rewrapping some of the gifts from her birthday. She is only one and will not know the difference. Heck, she will ...
- You have received a lot of wonderful gift ideas so far! If you are still searching for ideas, my sister and I have a company called "Countless Keepsakes" and we make c...
Holiday Traditions
We turn off the lights and enjoy the tree while we listen to a special CD about the Christmas story. We have listened to it since my oldest was a baby and ...
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- We get each of our kids a special tree ornament (either made or bought) and that way, when they are adults, they'll have 18 ornaments of their own - for keepsakes or f...
- One of the years we had the children make up a rap song and dance to a holiday song...We(Moms)wrote a little something special about each of our nieces and nephews...T...
- I love everyone's ideas! I would also suggest the APS Festival of Lights parade and the Santa's World at Firebird Raceway both are awesome, we have gone for the last t...
Holiday Traditions
Aug 31, 2009 ... My earliest childhood memories of Christmas always included the annual train ride .... 19,17,14 and even this last year ALL reminded me to read the story. ...
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- We just started this one. One of the uncles dresses up as Santa and walks around the outside of the house with his back to the windows like he's looking in the sky. ...
- My earliest childhood memories of Christmas always included the annual train ride to the city. We would meet at the train station (it started as my parents, the 6 of u...
- The only tradition I've established is doing what works on any given year! I mean, we celebrate Halloween by dressing up and going Trick-or-Treating, Fourth of July wi...
Goody Bags for 12-23 Month Olds
Go to the baby isle in your grocery story and get finger foods that are age ... We had a Christmas party and I made goody bags for the little ones with a ...
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- When my son was that age I used things like fruit snacks, fat crayons, stickers, those "puff" snacks...just think about what you give your own child. Be careful if she...
- Hi R.! I had to do the same once and I found Christmas themed squeaky toys at WalMart (can be used for bath time). I put a tiny Xmas bow on them and the kids loved the...
- As a former teacher of kids this age, stay away from food. If a child has a milk allergy, you can bet pretty much any cookies will be off limits and parents can get re...
Dad Constantly Eating Child's Food
I make a game out of pretending to get my son's food as a way to get him to eat (think of A Christmas Story, as my son is very much like that boy...LOL! ...
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- Hello H., The food is not the biggest issue here. Fighting in front of your 3 year old is bad enough, but both of his parents are using him as a pawn in their fights....
- I agree with what Kay said! He has some serious issues to do that kind of thing to a 3 yr old!
- Tell Dad to grow up...really...stealing food from a 3yo? It's one thing if Dad asks "Hey Cam can I have one of your green beans?" it's quite another to just reach ...
All He Wants from Santa...
As long as he knows the reason we celebrate Christmas and who Jesus is and ... of Christmas more than we do If he has heard the real Christmas story then ...
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- That is funny 3 year olds are strange. LOL but I am having the exact oppisite of your problem my 3 year old son wants everything. boys are difficult even as men they...
- K., The baby Jesus idea that someone mentioned is a great idea. I wonder if your son saw a tv show or someone read a book to him that had something to do with this....
- Sounds like youve got a wonderful little man in your household! Your deffinetly doing a great job with the parenting..I just wanted to tell you that though i know seve...
