Christmas time so we contridict ourselves (Keeping Your Child Safe from the Outside World)

Member Name: Elsiemay

Product:	Keeping Your Child Safe from the Outside World
Date:	22/11/01 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Brings gifts

Disadvantages: can be frightening

As parents we all tell our children about Stranger Danger.

Actually it is not just parents that warn children never talk to strangers, take sweets from them or even sit on their laps etc as they are told in schools by teachers and even the police go and chat to them about it.

So why oh why does this all fly out of the window when Christmas comes around.

Yes I mean with Father Christmas.

Suddenly we are sending mixed messages to our children.

Please dont get me wrong, I love Santa and my children believed in him and I told them the same things everyone does.

Yet we tell them to take sweets and pressies from this man and not so much nowadays but I can remember going in shops with my Mum and Dad and sitting on his knee and my Children doing the same and having their picture taken.

Worse still we tell them that when the whole house is asleep this man is coming into our home and leaving pressies and he doesnt even have the decency to come in through the door but down the chimney.

At one stage my daughter saw a Father Christmas in the town and for some reason took a dislike to him.

Come Christmas Eve she was upset and it worked out that she did not want him coming in her bedroom. That year we had to tell her it was okay we would tell him to leave the gifts downstairs.

I am not being flippant about the dangers to children with santa but I think we should all think what we do say and make sure the santa they see is a good one.

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