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Christmas for Kids
Publish your
child’s Letter to Santa
By Bob Robinson
Send your child’s
letter to Santa’s Helper, County News Online, PO Box 1113, Greenville,
Ohio 45331. Per policy, last names will not be published; just the
child’s first name and last initial. Santa drawings also accepted. If
you have a photo you would like to have published, send the digital
file to editor@countynewsonline.org.
“Visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads…”
Today I don’t think any child will have a clue what a sugar plum is. I
guess it will probably be visions of X-Boxes, video games, ipods
(whatever they are), the latest Disney movies and a whole host of other
toys that I can’t even begin to imagine.
We’ve already started writing our granddaughter Bella’s Santa list… and
each day it gets longer. At some point we’re going to have to say stop…
Santa’s running out of time.
But that day isn’t here yet, so we keep adding to the list. At two and
a half, she can’t write it down herself. Maybe in a year or so it will
get shorter.
I hope.
We saw the movie ‘Fred Claus’ a couple days ago. It was cute. But one
part hit me that I will probably always remember. He put Santa between
a rock and a hard spot when he took the “lump of coal” list and stamped
“Good” on every one of them.
How was Santa supposed to make and deliver all of those additional toys
on Christmas Eve? And why were kids who were NOT good going to get a
toy instead of a lump of coal?
Fred told his brother that – good or bad – EVERY child deserved a toy
for Christmas.
My thought? I agree. There are no bad kids… just kids struggling to
understand and adapt to their worlds. That opinion was reinforced today
when I substituted for a teacher with two different classes during the
day.
Each child as different as night and day, and each child precious in
his or her own way.
Christmas is a time to practice sharing the Gift of the Christ Child.
Santa epitomizes that gift for our young. Shouldn’t every child be
introduced to it?
I think so. Please let Santa’s Helper at CNO share your child’s Wish
List before we send it on to the North Pole.
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