Handling your own stress and stressful situations which present during every festive season, requires communication between ALL family members. Lack of this essential communication is one of the biggest reasons why relationships within families, hit tricky patches which can sully the entire holiday.
Everyone has their own take on how Christmas should be. If we just stop and think about the fact that family life is a blend, a merging of different individual family backgrounds with all the complexities, nuances, expectations and traditions this brings, it is not difficult to see how easily things can go wrong and how this can create enormous stress on a day when all we really want to achieve is happiness and enjoyment for all.
How many of us actually take time to discuss what each of us expects Christmas to be like. For example: how many presents should children receive? What time of the day do they open the presents and do they open them all at once? Who is responsible for what in the kitchen? Who is fetching elderly relatives? While one of us is cooking, does the other one look after the children AND play host to guests? In fact, what is the routine for the day? .....
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