Mother of The Year, Sierra McKenzie.
“Any type of parenting should be encouraged to be gentle parenting – in psychology, we call it positive parenting. It’s based on the idea that we notice the positive things children do and make a fuss of them, but ignore the silly things, because the model is encouraging good behaviours rather than poor.”
She says there’s no need for punishments or negativity if you have a good relationship with your child, based on listening and gentle communication. So, for example, instead of saying, ‘Get your feet off the couch’, it’s more helpful to say, ‘I’d prefer you not to put your feet on the couch because the mud gets on and I have to wash the covers’.
“You can have consequences,” explains Citron, “but there’s no need to raise voices or be negative or punitive – all that does is erode the relationship and the trust and communication between you.”
Jesus Christ is the reason for the season, not Santa Claus. Santa is just based off of Saint Nicolas, a real bishop from the 3rd century. We can take that to the bank.
What Hollywood and ‘literature’ produce will become even more boring than it has already. They are stealing all imagination, impetus to creativity, and magic from the kids.
I'm old enough to remember when we never heard that infernal word.
What the heck is a “parenting influencer?” A propagandist?
I fewel bad for her kids, happiness is not in their future.
Non-woke Christians know that there’s nothing Christian about Santa Claus. They prefer to tell their kids the truth about Christmas and the real, historical Saint Nick.
Santa gives kids a bad example when there’s already too much childhood obesity in this country
What a stupid article. Whether someone plays the Santa game has nothing to do with politics.
Just clickbait.
Getting satan, I mean Santa out of Christmas works for me.
It’s the same way we raised our girls.
Was the fictitious fraud born to deliver sinful man from the depths of sin?
Was the Easter bunny sent to Calvary to deliver sinful man from eternal separation from God?
Why do we accept a fable to replace a God that paid such a Great price?
Shame on us for even entertaining the concept!
Those that pretend to share the platform placing Jesus AND “santa” symbolically in the Manger, will one day have to confess to your children, you’ve been lying to them all these years about a fat cat in a red suit with (g)odly powers, “he knows when your asleep, he knows when your awake, he knows when you’ve been good or bad....”
So when your kids conclude that you’ve been lying to them about a fable, will they believe you when you tell them about God sending His only begotten Son to die on a Cross for our deliverance?
“So, for example, instead of saying, ‘Get your feet off the couch’, it’s more helpful to say, ‘I’d prefer you not to put your feet on the couch because the mud gets on and I have to wash the covers’.”
If the child is old enough to understand mud has to be washed off the couch why is mom or dad doing the washing?
Mother of The Year, Sierra McKenzie.
Gentle parenting sounds like a load of tripe but I see no reason to tell kids “Santa is Real”. Sanka is also not real. :)
Santa isn’t a lie, but one of the many fantasies that make up childhood. If this woman took her kid to Disney World and they see a guy in a Mickey Mouse suit walking down the street and the kid shouts with glee, “Look, Mommy! It’s Mickey!”, would she say, “No, dear. That’s just a guy in a Mickey Mouse suit”? I doubt it, because the fantasy of believing he saw the real deal is what makes it fun for the kid , and there is no harm in that. That world of wonder evaporates for most of us soon enough.
Everyone gets one childhood. I wanted my kids to have fun. The Santa/Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy traditions are merely fun games of anonymous gift-giving.
Taking the Japanese approach, Sant Claus or Saint Nicholas would be regarded as a kami. One of the gods or angels who do divine work.
Santa Claus is real.His spirit invests millions of people.
And he is NOT a lie.
Gentle parenting is generally a good way to raise feral children with few boundaries. Rules don’t apply, ever. Everything is negotiable.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/yes-virginia-there-santa-claus
So take that, all you Scrooges out there!
My goodness! You can tell all the “news writers” are below the age of 30. This is not something new. Every generation deals with the question of when and how to tell their children about “Santa”.
Some parents let their children know from the beginning that it’s just a story. My children knew at an early age that WE were Santa, but they just loved the family, fun, and gifts of the holidays. My grandchildren all know it’s family members, and not Santa, giving them gifts. However, with my children and my grand-children, they are all aware, that we are in fact, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord. (They just get new socks as a celebration).