The holidays can be a great time for nurturing family bonds; however, these times can also pose special challenges for parents:
Do you tell children Santa is real?
Do you tell them not to lie?
How do you celebrate Santa without lying to your children…or do you?
Would you be telling your child to sit on a strange man’s lap, accept candy from a stranger, and look forward to someone entering your house stealthily at night if it wasn’t Santa?
Do your children get the “gimmees” in December?
Do you avoid holiday shopping with your children and only use the excuse of buying gifts to avoid taking them and dealing with the tantrums, betting and whining?
If they misbehave in December…
Do you tell them elves are watching them? (Another creepy image of a Peeping Tom, just smaller.)
Or that if they aren’t good, Santa will put them on his naught list or leave coal in their stockings?