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Home | Home & Family | Holidays 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 suffer from peer pressure, too. They know that kids will talk to each other, and that the other parents will find out exactly what kind of Christmas everyone in the neighborhood had this year. And no parent wants to be thought of as cheap, especially by other parents. Many family psychologists feel that most parents place too much emphasis on the wrong aspects of Christmas-the toys and goodies their children receive-than on the feelings those parents are really attempting engender with their gift-giving. Most families are so busy, today, that parental guilt over being absent so much is epidemic. So, lots of moms and dads find themselves substituting material things for contact. 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. When January rolls around, a lot of the new toys have been abandoned, to be forgotten. But a few moments with Mom and Dad could provide a permanent, happy memory that can never be replaced. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
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