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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you make Christmas special when you're just with your three person nuclear family and the child is now a teenager?

It wasn't a problem when DD was younger and loved all the parental attention but now is turning 13 right around Christmas and recently had moved into much-rather-be-with-my-friends than my parents mode. We have little traditions like decor and gifts, but I'm feeling anxious about this mood we've been seeing bringing down the day. Last weekend we planned to do traditional Christmas baking to give cookies to the neighbors and it was like pulling teeth. [/quote]

my DS is 16 and we're also a 3-person fam. Every Christmas we have some family traditions/rituals mixed in with friend hang out times. They include a film festival (stream moves where each one of us picks 2 movies that we all watch together than we rate them and decided on a ranking). Trim and decorate tree with ornaments we've been collecting from trips and years and all drink egg nog and play holiday music. Go out to a great -re-Christmas lunch and/or dinner at one of the hotels or nicer restaurants in town (teen gets a gourmet burger and mocktail). We also host some of his K-8 and HS school friends to come over in groups of 1-3 for dinner and cook for everyone 1 or 2 times over the holidays. We take a driving tour to watch the city lights at night and he gets to DJ music (usually rap) with us (we switch to jazz).[/quote]

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