A simple look at how New Year is celebrated in some places around the world.

Examines several of the ways in which wishes are made in various parts of the world, including blowing dandelion fluff, tossing coins in water, and tying pieces of cloth to trees.

Explores several of the ways in which Christmas is celebrated in various countries around the world.

Little children throughout the world wait impatiently for Christmas to arrive. As parents know, it can seem as if the days just crawl by. Now your family can learn and put to use Advent traditions from the country of Germany during the Christmas season. No doubt mothers have long been inventing ways to keep young children occupied during the Advent season-like Gerhard Lang's mother, who in the mid-1800s helped her young son count the days on a calendar...