The Spirit of Christmas
I have
been cheating!!Call it whatever...
but what
I have done is not really punishable.
coz i
was teaching something...
faith,
belief, harmony,
appreciating
other traditions,
joining
others festivities...
believing
in others, yourself.... and so on...
I made
my children really believe that there was a Santa Claus and he would get them
gifts .... they would decorate the tree, make creative decorations…[ some of
them would be path breaking…. Like a mobile [!!!!], a trumpet, a broom[ thanks
to harry potter], and what not… they learnt to think out of the box to make
something new every time…
The
children in the neighbourhood would enjoy playing with each other..... sing
carols.... learn about Rudolph....and be good children.... [Coz Santa gives
gifts to only good children??!!!.].
I did
all this and much more….
I taught
them letter writing -- write a letter to Santa asking for gifts, your letter
should be polite and give him a choice of gifts to choose from [for you] it
might not be available in the market sometime [aaagh… it used to be tough
finding the exact thing….]
Speech writing….
What would you say if you met Santa…. Or if Santa visited you. How would you greet him and
what would you do …..
Message writing…..
You want a gift from Santa….but will be unable to stay awake late in the
night to meet him…. Leave a message for him… informing him the reasons for
doing so…
It was
through and through teaching beyond the classroom…. Teaching values… faith,
conviction.
All the
while I would enjoy playing secret Santa, buying the gifts.. wrapping them and
then hiding them till they went off to sleep…then joining them when they would
un wrap them -to see their excitement…
Then they
grew up….… started questioning…. Stopped believing everything we said…. Lost their
innocence…grew out of childhood.
Sigh!.
This time
I again asked my kid to write a note for Santa… for his gifts…
He didn’t.
He said…I
won’t ask him for anything more… he has given me everything…lovely parents who
take care of all my needs… if he wants to give anything on his own…. He may do
so…
Now what
do I do….
Any suggestions.???
Dear Friend
ReplyDeleteAsk the kids ( now grown ups) to write a letter to God thanking Him for giving birth in such parents' home and for giving every thing they wanted, also pl teach them that now it's their time to play Santa.
I always ask my kids to pray to God to send Santa, the angel of God , to write a letter to God for everything they want from Santa after all Santa is God's angel and only God may send Santa n gifts.
you are right khaleeq. shall do so. thank you for your suggestion.
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