Then there’s the shipping deadlines, making sure that it’s in your budget.”Like Huggins, many parents are up against the “mother lode” of stress way before the holiday season adds extra demands. To start, how do you want to feel during this holiday season? Instead, she suggested parents ask: “What’s our bandwidth? She suggested parents ask for donations to a charity — which they could select with their kids. That’s another way parents can make a frenetic season feel a little more calm and bright.

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Persons: Kara Alaimo, Terri Huggins, they’ll, ”, Huggins, ” There’s, ” Huggins, “, Anna Seewald, Seewald, Kimberly Solo, ” Seewald, Solo, don’t, — Organizations: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Women, Press, Facebook, CNN Locations: West Windsor , New Jersey, Princeton , New Jersey, , Massachusetts