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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.