With careful planning, the kids can enjoy a truly magical holiday. Try these tips.

Let your kids help you plan the holiday activities. Give kids a chance to take over certain tasks with you nearby to help them. Have them make holiday cards and gift tags, decorate cookies, and help you select teachers' gifts. 【小题1】 Let little ones choose gently used toys and clothes to donate or help you prepare kids' treats for the party you plan to have.

【小题2】 Remind your child ahead of time that there are kids nearby who are far less fortunate. Explain that every family, including yours, has its own values, traditions, and financial resources. Don't over promise.

Expect the unexpected. Count on late starts, flight delays, traffic, headaches, earaches, tummy aches, and more. 【小题3】 It's more convenient for you to face the unexpected you may come across. If you're traveling by car, know the rest stops along the way and be active about pulling into them. Pack snacks, books, games, music, puzzles, apps, and videos to keep backseat drivers busy.

Don't over﹣schedule activities. 【小题4】 Set aside time every day for low﹣key activities, such as reading books, telling stories, playing games, listening to music, or watching old﹣time kid﹣friendly holiday movies together.

Create a holiday tradition. Starting something new is a great way to bring parents and kids together. Take a group picture every year in the same location, with everyone standing or seated in the same spot. 【小题5】 If you're arty, decorate. If you're curious, start a list of all the amazing things to see and wonderful places to go. Give your little one a say in which ones top her list.

Every year, people all around the world come together to celebrate Earth Day with lots of different activities.Earth Day events typically have one theme in common:the desire to show support for environmental issues and teach future generations about the need to protect our planet.

The very first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. The event, which some consider to be the birth of the environmental movement, when spring comes, while avoiding most spring breaks and final exams.He hoped to call for college and university students for what he planned as a day of environmental learning and activism.

Participants (参与者) from 2, 000 colleges and universities, primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United States got together in their local communities to mark the occasion of the very first Earth Day. Almost 20 million Americans filled the streets of their local communities on that first Earth Day.

Earth Day is now observed in 192 countries, and celebrated by billions of people around the world.Events can be found everywhere from tree planting activities at your local park to online Twitter parties that share information about environmental issues. In 2011, 28 million trees were planted in Afghanistan by the Earth Day Network. In 2012, people rode bikes in Beijing to raise awareness about climate change and help people learn what they could do to protect the planet.

How can you get involved? The possibilities are endless. Pick up trash in your neighborhood. Make a commitment to reduce your food waste or electricity use. Plant a tree.Talk to your friends and family about environmental issues. The best part? Make every day Earth Day and help to make this planet a healthy place for all of us to enjoy.

Whether you admit it or not, people’s love for Christmas Jumper (毛衣) around Christmas has increased over recent years. And while you may be less willing to get involved in the Christmas jumper trend, Christmas Jumper Day now enables you to do more with your jumper than build up sweat in an incredibly warm office.

The origin of the Christmas jumper can date back to the late 19^th century in the USA. Americans in the 1930s knitted(编织) for Christmas to create an item of clothing to keep them “warm” during the Great Depression when people led a poor and miserable life. They copied the jumpers they saw their favorite stars wearing on the big screen. From the 1950s, it was common to see American families wearing festive jumpers as they sat down to eat their Christmas dinner.

Now, alongside wearing a festive jumper for the fun of it, there are other positive outcomes. Christmas Jumper Day has been set up to stimulate people to make the world better and raise funds for Save the Children by wearing a Christmas jumper and making a minimum donation of￡1. Ladbrokes, a company in the UK, is running a competition in which all you have to do is to take a selfie (自拍) outside of one of their shops while wearing a jumper — the winner will win a good prize and for every submission. Ladbrokes will donate￡5 to St. Luke’s Hospice charity. For you, it’s a win-win situation.

If you’re still unconvinced that it’s about time you bought yourself a Christmas jumper, then maybe the fact that Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Snoop Dogg have all been spotted wearing Christmas jumpers will raise your enthusiasm. Retailer (零售商) such as Topshop, Burberry and H&M have also become devoted to Christmas Jumper Day and have their very own types of Christmas jumpers.