Welcome to A Father’s Voice for December 2007. This month’s column is called This Year We’re Going to DisneyWorld. It is about how chaotic this time of year can be - especially for our family - and our solution to deal with it.

The exciting news this month is that two things I worked on and mentioned here are now available for your viewing and reading pleasure. First, Business Week TV interviewed me about fatherhood and the workplace and it is now available if you would like to take a look. Second is that Parents Connect, a parenting web site, has finally posted their Expert Answers section of their web site. I was fortunate enough to be asked to answer 7 of their questions - mostly from or about fathers. Feel free to check them out. I am also halfway through my 40 pieces for BabyZone.com’s new pregnancy newsletter where I will be writing for expecting fathers. When that becomes available I will be sure to let you know.

A Father’s Voice is my chance to share my voice with you about the challenges and rewards I experience trying to be a very involved father while having to work full-time away from our home. I write during the only disposable time of my day – my train ride to and from home.

Have a wonderful holiday season and I hope your new year is everything you want it to be.

This Year We’re Going to DisneyWorld

By Jeremy G. Schneider, MFT

Ahhh, the holiday season. The season of lights and presents and holiday cheer. The season of shopping and stress. The season of overwhelment. But this year we have a solution to it all. This year, we’re going to Disneyworld!

Really.

Not only are we one of those families where we have both Jewish and Christian members so we celebrate Chanukah at our house and Christmas with my wife’s family, but we also celebrate a birthday during December as well.

Or two.

Actually three.

Okay, we celebrate four birthdays during the month of December.

Well, to be completely honest we celebrate four birthdays in one week of December. In our family, we have four birthdays during one week and then we spend 51 weeks of the year recovering from and preparing for that one week.

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