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** 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) Follow & Support Please follow us @parentdrivendev (https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev) on Twitter or email us at panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com (mailto:panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com). Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com (https://parentdrivendevelopment.com). Support us via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev) and get access to our our Slack Community. Panel Mandy Moore (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) KWu (https://twitter.com/kwugirl) Allison McMillan (https://twitter.com/allie_p)