Maybe Santa Could Use Your Help
It’s time, again, for moms and dads everywhere to gear themselves up, financially and emotionally, for the annual guilt-assault by retailers. Christmastime means that parents have to learn about the most up-to-date toys and plan on how to buy them, in order to make their childrens’ Christmas special.
That list of toys and goodies your child wants changes every year, a change that is spurred on by the army of retailers who advertise just to your daughter, convincing her that whatever she got last year isn’t nearly as wonderful as this year’s model. So Santa has a whole new intricate and precise list of things to bring.
As a parent, you want to help Santa Claus make your child’s Christmas perfect, but you worry a bit about whether or not your child might be just a bit spoiled, when she gets all of those wonderful goodies on Christmas morning.
Besides that, there’s the matter of space. Where can you possibly store new toys? Last year’s crop, along with those from the year before, seem to inhabit every spare corner available. And most of them haven’t been played with or touched in months or, in some cases, years.
Imagine what another, perhaps less fortunate, child would feel, to have just a small percentage of the toys that live throughout your house. These are exactly the kinds of goodies that charitable organizations need to collect at the holiday season, to distribute or sell at a great discount to families who may have trouble affording this year’s toys.
Your child may not fully understand the concept of charity, yet, but she surely understands the feeling that comes from making someone else happy. And she’s probably familiar with the song that says that Santa knows when she’s been naughty or nice. Making someone else’s Christmas a little brighter, you can tell, her, is definitely a way to make Santa Claus’s nice-list.
Another way to convince your child of the benefits of recycling those toys she no longer wants is to tell her that Santa needs her help this year. If children like her will donate some of their gently-used toys to charity, then Santa can leave the North Pole with a lighter load on Chrismas Eve. Then, after he leaves new toys for her, he can pick up some of the gently-used toys she’s donated, and deliver them to other children who want them.
While she may not be too thrilled, at first, about giving away some of her treasures, the new goodies on Christmas morning will replace them in her heart, eventually. And, hopefully, as you remind her of how her generosity has helped others, the act of giving will become second nature to your child.
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