Who is Santa? Why does he do the things he does? Does he really exist? Yes, those are the questions concerning most youth in this country. The truth is that Santa was just some parent’s way of making their children behave. Sure, there are good parenting skills like: Breaking down in front of your children, begging and pleading with them, and just plain using the belt. Or, you can try the harder way: Teaching them honesty and loyalty, taking away privileges, and/or trying to throw some good morals on them, which just doesn’t seem to work. But nothing has ever worked as well as the good, old-fashioned: Bribery.
Many children have looked to the skies with excitement on Christmas Eve, because they have been “good.” While, in theory, they were extreme little demons who crashed everything in your entire household except for the priceless fruitcake which just wouldn’t break, even when smashed against the window. But as soon as the month of December comes out, the angel shines through, the Christmas List Novel comes out, and they are finally helping around the house with chores such as vacuuming the windows, sending the dog through the washer, and cleaning your favorite black leather jacket with gallons of bleach. Yes, the good in every child shimmers through that month. You take them to see Santa, and wait patiently while he/she announces that they had never did anything wrong in their life, always listened to Mommy, and swore that they had no idea how Daddy’s wallet got into the garbage disposal while the switch just happened to be on.
Christmas Day finally comes, the presents are unwrapped, and in just 30 minutes are strewn across the floor while you try to grab a cup of coffee without breaking your neck. The children then are grabbing and wringing each other’s necks again, and the help they promised you suddenly becomes void. Yes, in truth, Santa is a way to let you have one month off a year. To let your kids become half way decent in hope of a great Christmas. There are good parenting skills and bad ones.
You decide.
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