The god of Christmas shopping
A speaker invited to a school to talk about the meaning of Christmas instead went rogue and told the kids – some as young as 4 – that Santa doesn’t exist and then handed out chocolate Santas for them to smash up.
Parents have rushed to assure their shattered kids that the nasty crazy Christian was lying and Santa DOES exist and is the reason for Christmas.
Yikes, how embarrassing it would be to admit the pile of prezzies came out of hard-earned cash (or credit card debt) from Mommy and / or Daddy and aren’t freebies from an elf-factory at the North pole!
How much of your Christmas this year depends on the existence of Santa, a commercial entity created to build greed in children, guilt in parents, AND teach us to lie through our teeth to our young to protect a consumer icon?
THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE AN ANGRY BLOG AND PLEASE, IT IS NOT RELIGIOUS. This is SANTA talk, okay?
The question, if any, is how big a role does the god of Christmas shopping have in your Christmas, and has anyone noticed a difference from childhood to now in the size of his role?
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You would be better suited in the grinch hat
Bah humbug indeed
We give red packets containing $$$ during auspicious days like birthdays, Chinese Lunar New Year, newborn baby full moon ( 1 month-old ) etc..etc..etc...
Nothing expensive, but they were always happy with presents......so far.
Paganism was here before Christianity
I honestly suspect those prezzies under the tree came from my family and only stopped because I stopped being a good girl
As for the kiddie pressies i do not know ---but if the clothes kids wear, and phones yes the wear etc it might be parents in debt after crimble. Shame that, even royal family buy each other small gifts even jokey ones ha ha
It can seem to some that it's a fantastically expensive time of year when there is a lot of pressure to spend more money than usual on goods priced higher than usual, and all in the name of a rather ridiculous figure in a costume of pagan origin.
Exchanging presents when I was a kid was you gave and you got one each from parents and siblings, and lucky the child who had aunts, uncles and grandparents close enough to arrive bearing gifts.
The last family Christmas I went to (and I swore never again) included two flushed and over-excited kids ripping their way through close on forty presents, paper flying and their voices getting shriller and shriller until one went into complete hysterics. SANTA HADN'T BROUGHT THE BIKE WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Bad Santa.
(But you are very in the spirit of Christmas, so that counts in your favour
I can not be persuded under any circumstances to get into debt-----aso call me scrooge ha ha with a smiley face
I believe in letting children be chikdren for as long as possible, because being an adult ain't all that
The spirit and magic of Santa seeps through to adults through the joy of the child.
Leave the magic of Santa alone, it's the only magic left.
Having said that, I'm a fan of the whole thing, for all my bah humbug attitude. I loved the whole ceremony of hanging up my stocking, going to bed early, straining my ears listening for jingling harness and hooves on the roof. When my daughter was young I did the whole snowy footprints on the floor to and from the fireplace (yeah I know, middle of summer in the southern hemisphere, but that's WHY the snow fell off his boots, you see
I used to decorate the tree,outdoor bushes and such.I and saw my sons when they were little tots hang up their stockings which they made themselves.Over time when they became grownups I no longer did the things I used to do.
Last year I called my sons and wished them a Merry Christmas.
I think my first inkling that this Christmas thing might be a bit fake was telling my mother I could hardly wait for my bike to arrive. She looked at me slightly wildly. Bike? BIKE? I thought you wanted a dollhouse?
No, I said, I want a bike. A RED one.
Santa brought a dollhouse.
Merry Ho Ho...
Did you post it yourself, or did you learn pretty quickly that it was a better idea to give it to a parent to post?
do you really think when you and I were little children believing in Santa the same pressures were not upon our parents as they are today? of course they were... we just didn't know about it is all.
Christmas doesn't change, WE do