Merry Christmas Eve!
As we gear up for the next few days of holiday festivities, my wish for you is that your family — and you — aren’t butt hurt over stupid stuff.
Break your kid’s trust?
I read an article this morning in the Indy Star — an opinion written for human consumption. Basically, the mother said she didn’t want to “break her kid’s trust” by perpetuating the myth of Santa. She claimed that was one fewer crack in the veneer of childhood. She even said that when kids are told he isn’t real, tears of disappointment and rage could follow. 🙄
I don’t recall my Mom telling me Santa was real — and I don’t remember her revealing that he wasn’t. I do remember asking, and I recall a time I knew the fat guy probably wasn’t real, but I was afraid to state that as fact. I was afraid if I said it out loud, I wouldn’t get presents if I was wrong. My favorite brother, whispering behind Mom’s back, would try to clue me in — but he also told me that the police brought me and my parents weren’t really my parents. (Yup, he was all about Bill Cosby and the stories he told his kid brother.)
We currently live in a world where EVERYTHING is a big freaking deal!
I know I’m old, but it sure seems like everything must be earth shattering to garner attention. My “baby” is middle-aged and sometimes I still put “Santa” in the from box on name tags. There are way too many other things we do as parents to scar our children for life… and pretending there’s a Santa Claus isn’t one of them, y’all.
Believing in Santa didn’t scar my brother either as evidenced by our text exchange when I sent him the photo above this morning…
Now you know: Many people in Japan eat KFC as their Christmas meal.