What Really Makes Christmas Special

One thing most parents would agree on, as December makes its way onto the calendar, is that Christmas is a time when children are the focus of most families' lives. We may plan many activities throughout the holiday season, but Christmas itself must be a joyous holiday for our kids.

By early in the season, most parents have a pretty good idea what their kids want Santa to bring them, when he makes his Christmas Eve stop at their homes. Children are bombarded with TV commercials and advertising, convincing them, by early autumn, what they must find under the Christmas tree, in order to have a joyful holiday.

And moms and dads naturally want to make their kids' holidays as special as they can be, by helping St. Nick provide all of those perfect goodies. So parents plot and plan and connive, early on, their strategies for finding and buying all of the goodies on those Santa Claus wish-lists.

But a lot of parents also feel pressure from other parents to help Santa provide a great pile of gifts for their kids on Christmas morning. As parents and kids talk, they share their Christmas stories, recounting their holidays. Parents, whether they admit it or not, want their efforts at Christmas to be envied by others, so many may overspend on their children as a way of showing off for their peers.

Many experts feel that parents put way too much pressure on themselves and each other, to perform as Santa Claus's surrogates at Christmas time. With two-career households the norm, today, the real issue may be time, rather than toys. Parents today spend far less time with their kids than our parents spent with us. As a result, many parents try to compensate with gifts, activities, and other ways of showing their love. And many parents go overboard with this kind of compensation, especially at Christmas.

A lot of moms and dads find themselves, on Christmas Eve, worried that maybe they should make just one more trip to the mall, to find just one more gift for their children. Ironically, what their children may want most is that time with their parents. If mom and dad resisted the impulse to go shopping, and just relaxed with their kids for a few hours, they might find a much deeper joy in Christmas.

Toys come and go. They fall apart and rust. Families last forever. The memory of a quiet afternoon with a parent can be the greatest possible gift to a child.

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