Open communication and answering your kid's many questions can help them feel safe in a complex world

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If you're wondering how to make have the ultimate Christmas countdown extra festive, might we suggest an advent calendar?

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I've written hundreds of letters as Father Christmas. Here's why, after 16 years, I'm retiring my festive pens.

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When the excitement around the holidays and sensory overload gets overwhelming, these tips can help.

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Jan Stewart is a highly regarded mental health and neurodiversity advocate. Her brutally honest memoir Hold on Tight: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness describes her emotional roller coaster story parenting two children with multiple mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders.  

Her mission is to inspire and empower parents to persevere through the most difficult of times and have hope, as well as to better educate their families, friends, health care professionals, educators and employers.  Jan chairs the Board of Directors at Kerry’s Place Autism Services, Canada’s largest autism services provider, and was previously Vice Chair at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. 

She spent most of her career as a senior Partner with the global executive search firm Egon Zehnder. Jan is a Diamond Life Master in bridge and enjoys fitness, genealogy and dance.

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Vanessa Grant is a senior branded content editor at Today's Parent. A journalist and mom to two spirited boys, she knows more about Minecraft and Pokémon than she ever thought she would. She loves working on lifestyle content and learns something new with every story.

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