Maybe Santa Could Use Your Help
J Gardener
If you're like most parents, you view the upcoming Christmas season with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. You're excited about the joy you know the season will bring you and your family, especially your child. The trepidation comes from wondering, as you do each year, if you'll be able to find and purchase exactly the right toys and goodies that will make your daughter's Christmas perfect.
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, where could you possibly put new toys in your house? Last year's Christmas haul, for the most part, has been untouched since last January, just taking up precious space. And, most of the stuff looks almost brand new.
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 daughter's too young, perhaps to grasp the nature of charitable giving, and how it helps sustain so many people, but she will understand the idea that by donating some of her less-loved toys, she will make another child smile on Christmas morning. And she probably already realizes that Santa's generosity has at least a little to do with her own good behavior. Giving is definitely good behavior.
You may have to convince your child that by donating some of her older toys to charity, she's really helping Santa out, on his annual sleigh-ride. Once he leaves her toys under your tree, then he has room on the sleigh for those toys your child donated to charity, and he can make those deliveries as well.
And, really, by the time your daughter opens her new toys on Christmas morning, the toys she chose to donate will be long forgotten. And reminding her of her charity, and the joy she helped bring to another family, may help to instill a lifelong habit of generosity in your child.
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