Something's been bothering me lately. I get that it's christmas time and all the charities are out and about, saving christmas for all the little poor kids. But it seems like everywhere i go, everyone wants you to donate toys.
"Give a kid a christmas this year, donate a toy."
"Get into the christmas spirit this year and donate a toy."
"Thanks to your generous toy donations, little boys and girls everywhere will have a christmas."
What are we teaching kids these days? That christmas=toys? These charities seem to be telling me that if kids don't get toys, then christmas is completely ruined! Whatever happened to just spending time with family, having a meal that's not boot soup? Maybe i don't really get this holiday at all. I totally get that gift giving is a large part of this holiday, and of course parents want to give their kids toys for christmas, I don't see anything wrong with that. What annoys me is when people want you to think that the holiday is completely ruined if kids don't get toys.
Someone who celebrates this holiday more than I do, please tell me: are toys really that important in making christmas?
What about the other kids who don't celebrate christmas?
1 day ago
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toys do NOT = christmas! : ) my understanding is that the whole gift-giving thing came about as a result of celebrating the gift of Christ to the world. i think there are some other pagan traditions that date before christmas that also involve gift-giving, but the reasons escape me now!
but i'm right there with you! it's ridiculous. kids should feel loved and special at christmas, but it should be because people are caring for them, not just throwing toys at them.
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