If Santa only gives presents to "good" kids....?

Question

, does that mean that kids who come from poor families are inherrantly bad because they don't get presents from Santa?

LOL I know that Santa doesn't exist, I was making a point. There is too much emphasis on material crap.

JT - You hit the nail on the head :0)

Answer 1

There is no Santa, so I'm not sure why you are asking that question... perhaps you are saying that the Santa story would just make poor kids feel bad.

Actually, my parents never told me the Santa story and they worked hard to teach me that Christmas was about giving, not receiving. As soon as I was big enough to earn a little money for doing chores, they encouraged me to give gifts to others. One year my mom took me shopping for gifts for kids in South America. Santa doesn't have to be the center of Christmas--Jesus is, and He came to give not to receive. We should be telling our kids his story.

Answer 2

A gift does not have to cost money. I have a corn husk doll set my Great- Great Grandmothers father made for her for her as a child.
One year my father had been laid off work and my mother made us Christmas ornaments from salt dough. Christmas cookies she painted on with food coloring that where so beautiful I hated to eat them. I can see them vividly now.
I think the parents attitude has a lot to do with how the children interpret the difference between their "Christmas" and the neighbors.
Children of poor families usually get **different** presents, most communities in the US have some kind of program to help the children have gifts at Christmas. Mine has several and it is only a population of 8,000.
When I was growing up the idea that Santa only brought gifts to good kids was something I thought parents made up. I never believed Santa was like that.
By the way, did you always get something from Santa?

Answer 3

Santa Claus is based on Saint Nicholas, a third- or fourth-century bishop who was known for his generosity towards children and others.

It's not Saint Nicholas'/Santa Claus' fault that over the centuries others have used him to try to control children's behavior, or that over the last 125 years or so his image has been used to commercialize Christmas. It's like blaming Jesus Christ for how American right-wingers, European Crusaders, Salem witch-hunters, anti-Semites, and others have misused his name and image (although Jesus could have more control over that than Saint Nicholas could).

Santa Claus is fun, but he doesn't bring Christmas; he serves Christmas. Even without the attachment of materialism or behavior control, people love to give in his name, following Saint Nick's example of generosity. BTW, Nicholas' feast day is December 6; this is why he got tied in with Christmas, which of course happens in the same month.

BTW, many poor kids DO get presents from Santa, even though their presents might not be as expensive as the rich kids. I grew up in the projects in the 1960s, and my siblings and I always got Santa presents. (Okay, we weren't destitute.) Other poor kids get their Santa letters answered by generous elves via the Post Office's Operation Santa.

You, BTW, might take a lesson from Stevie Wonder, who grew up poor:

Looking back on when I
Was a little nappy headed boy
Then my only worry
Was for Christmas what would be my toy
Even though we sometimes
Would not get a thing
We were happy with the
Joy the day would bring

--"I Wish", from Songs in the Key of Life

Answer 4

After paying my own heating bill in New England last winter I would have been very happy with coal.

If you look at some of the most successful CEOs in business right now many of them had very hard childhoods and that is what pushed them to be leaders. People who don't work during high school or college, just get money from parents, lack the drive to succeed.

Realistically I have grown up and seen the effects of commercialization of the holiday and start to realize that presents are the root of the evil.

Answer 5

Sometimes not getting a present just means Santa made a mistake. He's a great person, but he's very old and forgets sometimes. It's not that you were bad, just that Santa forgot.

Just thought I'd give a real answer instead of berating you.

Answer 6

no. I wasn't raised rich, (not even close, in fact) and christmas was a bit of a let down most years. We were nonetheless happy and excited to get whatever santa brought us. We always laughed extra hard at the stupid stuff santa would pull too, like weird stuff in our stockings (that I knew was in the fridge the night before,) or presents wrapped in boxes from my mom's favorite ciggs or beer. lol

;o)

Answer 7

NO such thing as Santa Clause! Because bad, rich kids still get presents. So it proves it right there.

Answer 8

Nope. It just means there is no such person as Santa Clause. I never got presents from Santa - my parents decided not to mark any presents as if they were from him! So does that make me bad? Nah...well...maybe. lol. jk!!!!!!!

Answer 9

How about dropping off some things at the Salvation Army ... if you don't Santa will put you on the "BAD" list and YOU will git nuttin' !!!

Answer 10

Santa replaced into bribed...my mom have been given around this via getting us precisely what we mandatory from Santa. nevertheless, those have been $30 grants, no longer $3 hundred iphones. additionally one way you ought to describe it quite is that Santa gave the rich childrens high priced grants, in hopes that they might provide their previous toys (additionally high priced) to poorer households, and to different childrens who might appriciate them. Like in charities. As for making your infants no longer beleive in Santa...i did no longer locate out till i replaced into thirteen, and that i replaced right into somewhat crushed, yet my brother replaced into 7 on the time, so I saved up the exciting. final year my brother reported to me that he knows that Santa isn't real (he replaced into 12), I instructed him that he ought to easily faux that he's, through fact our mom has exciting pretending Santa is real. My mom knows he knows, yet we do Santa grants in any case through fact of custom. I basically had my daughter this year, so my mom is worked as much as maintain the Santa custom going. Christmas is the main serious trip for my family members, no longer lots for the grants, yet for the togetherness. My mom frequently asks us our actual 3 grants, and all of us understand in the event that they are high priced we will not get lots else. yet whilst their small, non high priced grants, then we get greater grants.