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TIPS FOR BLENDED FAMILIES

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Psychologist Nadine Kaslow offers these tips for relieving the stress of holiday gatherings for blended families:

1) Holidays are not the time to add stress. Talk ahead of time.

2) Create rituals in each set of families.

3) Find a way for step children to share in family traditions.

4) Make plans that are realistic.

5) Do not compete on gifts. Collaborate.

6) A child should call the other parent if separated on a holiday.

7) Allow child to split holiday with divorced parents.

8) Don't expect everyone to connect.

9) Be respectful, don't force it.

10)Leave peacemaking for other times of the year.

Tributes continue to pour in for Tim Russert Tim Russert, who became one of America's leading political journalists as the host of NBC's "Meet the Press," died Friday, the network said. He was 58.

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