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By setting a positive tone, you can shape how the holiday feels and unfolds for you and your kids.

Plan solo activities that make your time alone feel intentional.

Create new traditions that fit your life and bring you happiness.

Focus on gratitude and the meaning behind each holiday celebration.

One of the biggest adjustments newly minted single parents must make following a separation or divorce is adjusting to holidays without their children present, or present for only part of the time. Whether the kids are babies, teens , or young adults, the result can be an unfamiliar silence that can take some getting used to.

As a family law attorney and divorced single mom (of four adult children) who remarried a divorced single dad of two more than a decade ago, my husband a

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