With school holidays about to end, Today the children will extend the illusion of some festivities that many seem to be 'the most beautiful and endearing'. For example, my children love summer because it lasts a long time, but they value Christmas very positively because they are more exciting, and they seem to have soaked in that spirit that is suspended in the environment despite consumerism and all the people who live Christmas As a mere procedure.
It is precisely now that the free time of our children ends, when they have the opportunity to live the Three Kings Cavalcade, which may bring more illusion than gifts, but that always reminds us of those who came from the East to give away gold, incense and look at Jesus of Nazareth, and to whom they were granted the opportunity to present children from all over the world.
To all children, without conditions, and more in the case of an act of love in which parents participate, responding to desires and feeding those little souls. That is, to all children, not to those who behave as we want
I don't know how old your children will be, but I imagine that the experience as parents will be indicating that It is about eight years when they usually discover 'the best kept secret', they may do it spontaneously, tired of asking questions to those who do not find an answer, or by the influence of colleagues and friends. My son at five already questioned him, because he had not just squared the idea of three men of more than 2,000 years who were still around the world, that's how he decided that they had been looking for substitutes to feed the fantasy.
Two and a half years later, and shortly after discovering Ratoncito Pérez, everything fell apart, and although in general he is quite happy to help keep the 'story' for his sister, friends and cousins to believe, there are times that it is aware of losing innocence, and has a strong feeling of loss. Now he is 10, and at this age, there are few children who do not know, when it happens, it is the parents who decide to intervene to tell them.
The fact of finding out more or less early may be influenced by the ability to convey the illusion that parents have, after all, we are not lying to them, but accompanying an innocence that will end spontaneously at a certain age, regardless of those who have. And on the other hand, I am personally in favor of telling the truth when they ask direct questions, with this we will not harm them; Nor do we have to go around many times, except adapt the language if they are still very small.
But let's return to the theme that motivates this entry: the idea of a Santa Claus, or a Magi, who decide to give or not depending on the behavior of children, it seems mean to me (forgive me the expression). Because although I know that in practice everyone ends up having their gift, it is nothing positive that they live the previous days with that fear. In addition to the fact that there are children who decide to play 'the threat' in their favor, and change their behavior during the previous days, sometimes they expressly express it.
Unfortunately, and with which he is falling, there are so many children who need the solidarity of others to receive gifts! But that is something else, because regardless of whether or not they know that 'Kings are the parents', everyone internalizes that these gifts they are delivered for love and this should be unconditional, isn't it?
So today we forget about coal, and that the Magi act as judges; and from now on we are more aware of what our children need from us, correcting them if necessary, but always understanding that adapting to a sick society is not easy for them who still retain much of the purity with which they were born.
