Want to connect more with your kids over the holidays? Consider the benefit of storytelling and shared memories. It's a strange and wonderful gift. One that I discovered almost by accident.

A few years back my parents decided they wanted a different kind of Christmas gift. Instead of a wrapped present, they asked me (and each of my siblings) to write a story—or more precisely a memory. It could be from our childhood or otherwise. The only rule was that it had to be ready to share with the whole family on Christmas Day.

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