Holiday

Christmas

The holiday that I chose was Christmas. The article I decided to dig up on was about children and Christmas. Mrs. Karyl McBride wrote an article about her talking to two children about Santa Clause and presents. One of the children started to cry because her parents had told her if she was not good every day that Santa will bring her nothing but coal.


What she came up with is that if a child still believe in Santa Claus, they also believe everything their parents tell them. Also she started to question how much pressure was being put on these kids to me nice. The child had curbed herself from wish lists, turned off television ads where toys were displayed and emotionally shut down because she knew she was unable to be perfect. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-legacy-distorted-love/201212/will-i-be-good-enough-santa However, when the child woke up the next day she had presents. Mrs. Karyl McBride also made a point about the song, "Santa Clause is Coming to Town". She notice that the song is about a message as an eerie one that causes angst for children at a time when they should be taught about love, giving, and family connection. 


Her main idea about adults who tell their children too be good for Santa is wrong. She believes that using the words good and bad to describe children is dangerous. Her idea is that those words will be permanently indented in the child's mind that he was bad or good for Christmas. Eventually when the child grows up, they will think that they're not good enough for their parents. 

Bad child grows up to be a bad adult!