Celebrating the holiday’s after a divorce can be challenging if you and your spouse created traditions specifically for your family. National divorce coach Lee Block of the Post-Divorce Dating Club offers these great tips for new divorcees who want unique ways to celebrate the holiday season.
- Start your own. Because you are no longer the same type of family unit, it is important to do things a different way than when you did them as a family unit. Whether it is having a movie night on New Year’s Eve and then a celebration at midnight or having a big Christmas Eve night instead of a Christmas morning, make them fun and involve the kids in the planning so they feel more comfortable.
- Speaking to the parent without custody. Make it a tradition that the children get to speak to the other parent when they aren’t with them for the holidays. Whether Skype or phone, it is a great way for them to still feel connected and also to help the other parent who is without the kids on the holiday.
- If you are alone, spend that time with either friends or family. Take a trip and go somewhere you always wanted to go. Don’t spend that time alone, which leads to depression.
- Christmas doesn’t have to be on December 25. If you don’t have your kids, you can still celebrate. Pick another day when you do have them and let them know you are going to be having a big celebration then. Decorate the tree and house and do it up then.
- Make it fun for the kids. Especially the first few years, so they can see that this new nuclear family is just as great as the one where both parents lived in the same house.
- Take the kids on a vacation. If you have always stayed home, get in the car and take a drive to a theme park or even a new city. Sometimes just getting out of the town you are in will infuse everyone with the holiday spirit.
- Have a party. Just because you are alone on the holidays, doesn’t mean you have to wait to get an invitation from someone to go to his or her house. Have your own celebration and invite everyone to you. Having a house full of people will keep the loneliness at bay.
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