Instead of opening an Advent Calendar door that has something short-lived inside, open the Santa Spirit Advent Calendar Book to find activities that will create long-lasting happy family memories!
With something to read, do and make each night of Advent, this book gives families quick, easy, fun and free things to do in the 24 days before the arrival of Santa Claus. It is designed to support families during these COVID days by giving home-bound, fun and inexpensive things to do together that will nourish family togetherness!
Delightful by design, by focusing on the joyful Santa Spirit you will find countless ways to make happy memories that will last a lifetime in the hearts and minds of children of all ages.
Author Information: Dr. Yvonne Vissing is a professor, mom, and human rights advocte who hopes this book will bring you joy and
the Santa Spirit.

Yvonne Vissing, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Centre for Childhood and Youth Studies at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts. Yvonne has worked in the area of child and youth advocacy for her entire career collaborating with different child rights groups in the USA. Her work is driven by the pursuit of human rights, community-building, resiliency, peace and justice. Yvonne has worked as a teacher, researcher, consultant, therapist, award-winning filmmaker, mediator, guardian-ad-litem, and helps organizations to decrease child abuse and improve child well-being. She is a former fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health, University of Connecticut Center for Democracy, and Whiting Foundation. Author/co-author of 15 books and hundreds of chapters, professional journal articles and other publications, including 'Children's Human Rights in the USA: Challenges and Opportunities' (Springer, forthcoming), 'The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors: Perspectives and Case Studies on Migrant Children' (Springer), 'Children's Human Rights as a Buffer to Extremism' (Springer); 'Changing the Paradigm of Homelessness' (Routledge) and 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Homeless Children in Small Town America' (Lexington).