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Podcast: Talking Toddlers
Episode: If Christmas Feels Like Too Much, You’re Not Doing It Wrong Ep 135
Description: If Christmas feels overwhelming - for you or your toddler - you’re not imagining it.And you’re not doing anything wrong.For babies and toddlers, the holiday season brings more noise, more stimulation, more people, more stuff, and disrupted routines - often all at once. Little nervous systems aren’t built to manage that kind of overload, even when everything looks joyful from the outside.In this episode, I explain why Christmas can feel like “too much” for young children, and how understanding early brain development can help you release guilt, lower expe...