** Warning: This episode contains potential holiday spoilers for young children.
Parent Driven Development
Episode 023: The Holidays: A Retrospective
00:18 Spending the holidays with your extended family...
When families celebrate different holidays and observe different religions
Code-switching (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching)
12:28 ...Or spending the holidays alone and making new traditions!
Elf on the Shelf (https://www.elfontheshelf.com/)
NORAD Santa Tracker (https://www.noradsanta.org/)
17:00 Compromise and Respect; Expectation Setting
When kids are younger, the holidays don't matter as much.
You want to pass on things you did as a child to your own child(ren)
25:31 The Reality
When no one pays attention to your wishes
Thoughts about the future
31:05 Genius / Fail Moments
Mandy: Remembered to move the Elf every day this year! (#Genius)
Allison: Her and her husband remembered that their local avaition museum membership had a sister museum close to her inlaws. (#Genius)
KWu: Her son blew his diaper in the carseat on the way home from her parent's house and uninstalled the carseat. (#Fail)
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Panel
Mandy Moore (https://twitter.com/therubyrep)
KWu (https://twitter.com/kwugirl)
Allison McMillan (https://twitter.com/allie_p)
