Keep Your Child Busy With Official Thanksgiving Hosting Duties

Your child may have trouble with normal socialization, so make an official hosting role part of your family tradition. Things like watching out the window for arriving guests, toting coats to a back room, taking beverage orders, ringing the dinner gong, or checking on pets relegated to a back room give your child a safe way to interact with others and a non-antisocial reason to retreat from disruptive goings-on. Read more of my tips for making a Thanksgiving tradition out of hosting together, and then share your own holiday traditions.

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