What is your fondest memory of a holiday? We don't want the kids just eating and watching television.

I grew up celebrating the holidays with cousins, aunts and uncles. And I wanted that for my kids even though we don't have family in South Florida.

We don't ask the kids to dress up. We'd rather have them with us than to have to fight with them to put on fancy clothes.

That was a great memory.

I was thinking about how the kids in New Orleans wouldn't have a good holiday. They'd lost everything. I wanted to make them feel like someone cared about them.

If we're going to teach it to all kids -- kids who might not naturally be abstract learners -- we need a variety of teaching methods.