Santa plays by the house rules with parent friendly presents
CHRISTMAS is coming, the geese are getting fat. The children are looking for this and this and THAT! Yes indeed it’s almost that time of year again and, as the lists grow longer and longer, I’m filled with a dread of what may appear on them. Requests for various animals and mounting costs aside, I worry that the Man in the Red Suit may well be asked for something that is not allowed in this house — or not allowed yet, anyway.
Most of us have great ideas about the sort of parents we’ll be. We have ideas about rules, boundaries, aspirations, what we will and won’t allow, what age we’ll allow certain things happen and what will never be acceptable. Yes, most of us have great ideas about the sort of parents we’ll be — and then we actually have children.
