12 days of Christmas – Christmas Day
Whoever maintains that ‘Christmas is for the kiddies really’ clearly doesn’t realise that having an excuse to drink champagne before breakfast is great!
Kids and Christmas does not constitute peace and goodwill. I used to think that the tradition of gift giving at Christmas started with the three wise men – wise indeed, because how were they to know that Jesus was an only child? That’s why they took, basically, a token, bath salts and perfume – three things that siblings would never squabble and fall out over. Believe me, if the wise men had bourn gifts of lego and Jesus had had a big brother, it wouldn’t have been a silent night in Bethlehem.
In fact the tradition of gift giving on Christmas Day was invented, or re-invented, by the Victorians, probably driven by popular culture or Fisher-Price, Sony and Mattel.
Thankfully, I am still enough of a big kid to enjoy Christmas. The difference is that while as a child and teen I was a horribly materialistic little git, I now take great delight in my new Doctor Who mug, which comes complete with spoon or, as I see it’s titled, a ‘time-stirrer’. Honest to God, it’s more fun than a DS.
Kids and Christmas does not constitute peace and goodwill. I used to think that the tradition of gift giving at Christmas started with the three wise men – wise indeed, because how were they to know that Jesus was an only child? That’s why they took, basically, a token, bath salts and perfume – three things that siblings would never squabble and fall out over. Believe me, if the wise men had bourn gifts of lego and Jesus had had a big brother, it wouldn’t have been a silent night in Bethlehem.
In fact the tradition of gift giving on Christmas Day was invented, or re-invented, by the Victorians, probably driven by popular culture or Fisher-Price, Sony and Mattel.
Thankfully, I am still enough of a big kid to enjoy Christmas. The difference is that while as a child and teen I was a horribly materialistic little git, I now take great delight in my new Doctor Who mug, which comes complete with spoon or, as I see it’s titled, a ‘time-stirrer’. Honest to God, it’s more fun than a DS.
Labels: Children, Christmas Day, Gifts
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