Opening christmas presents

A North Carolina couple woke up on Christmas morning to what they described as a "terrifying" scene: their 3-year-old loudly requesting a pair of scissors.

When it comes to opening our Christmas presents, how can we make sure we're more focused on Christ than on what gift we're receiving?

We've made holiday shopping easy with this guide to cruelty-free shopping at the mall!

If you're tired of people tearing into presents, here are some methods to slow them down. People will have time to appreciate each gift, and pictures can be taken at a slower pace. Best of all? Children will learn to enjoy each gift more.

Even if you think yourself a reluctant shopper, consider all of the resources used to create our material world: the steel to build our homes, the natural gas to fire our furnaces, the aluminum in our smartphones and tablets. In the world’s richest countries, consumption has ballooned by over a third in the past few decades to the point that in 2010, each person in the thirty-four richest nations consumed over 220 pounds of stuff every day. How did we come to be such voracious, irrepressible…

There is tremendous pressure to give stuff; for children to have something to open on the big day. Now more than ever it can be challenging to give something truly meaningful. Here's how you can give a college education.

Christmas with four little ones looks exactly like this...ohhh the memories...

Cute happy excited children, boy and girl in santa hats unwrap rabbit christmas present on holiday morning in beautiful room. Sister and brother open Xmas gifts near decorated tree and fireplace.