With less than a week to go before Christmas, the kids are probably off from school, high on sugar, and getting antsy fo...

Last year, it wasn’t even Thanksgiving and my 7-year-old had already let it spill. We were driving home from school with...

Don’t look for plastic partitions or faraway benches when visiting Santa Claus this year

So, your long-awaited holiday trip to visit family or friends was cancelled—for the second year in a row. It has occurre...

Listen, I don’t have pets. My three kids under age 9 keep begging for a dog, to which I say, “Are you going to pick up i...

It can be a challenge to get kids to part with their old toys. Sure, they haven’t played with that train since the pre-p...

It used to be that a child’s only options for personally connecting with Santa in the lead-up to Christmas were to send...

Although the pandemic has sought to affect as many aspects of our lives as possible, we’ve also gotten pretty good at fi...

I can remember, as a small child, thinking it odd that I bought Christmas gifts for my parents from my school’s mini hol...

This year, for the first time, the program is both virtual and nationwide. That means more kids can write in asking for...