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22 Dec 2006 05:20:18 AM |
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'Is Santa Claus Real?' |
'Is Santa Claus Real?'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16312967/site/newsweek/
It's the question many parents get around this time of year. A child
psychologist offers tips for giving the answer.
Web Exclusive
By Jessica Bennett
Newsweek
Updated: 11:11 a.m. ET Dec. 21, 2006
Dec. 21, 2006 - It's the oldest trick in the book: threaten the kids
with a lump of coal, and they'll behave in the name of Santa Claus.
That may have worked years ago, but today's youngsters are smarter,
savvier and more high-tech. Threaten them with a charcoal brick, and
they'll retort with questions about how it's possible for Santa to get
down every chimney in the world in just one night. Today, studies show
that only 25 percent of 8-year-olds still believe in Santa Claus, and
those who do could easily run a Google search to find the nonbelievers.
Robert Butterworth, a Los Angeles-based child psychologist, spoke with
NEWSWEEK's Jessica Bennett about the tricky dance that parents do
when asked about jolly old St. Nick. Excerpts:
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| User: "Greywolf" |
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| Title: Re: 'Is Santa Claus Real?' |
22 Dec 2006 05:48:15 AM |
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"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1166786418.435908.143250@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
'Is Santa Claus Real?'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16312967/site/newsweek/
It's the question many parents get around this time of year. A child
psychologist offers tips for giving the answer.
Web Exclusive
By Jessica Bennett
Newsweek
Updated: 11:11 a.m. ET Dec. 21, 2006
Dec. 21, 2006 - It's the oldest trick in the book: threaten the kids
with a lump of coal, and they'll behave in the name of Santa Claus.
That may have worked years ago, but today's youngsters are smarter,
savvier and more high-tech. Threaten them with a charcoal brick, and
they'll retort with questions about how it's possible for Santa to get
down every chimney in the world in just one night. Today, studies show
that only 25 percent of 8-year-olds still believe in Santa Claus, and
those who do could easily run a Google search to find the nonbelievers.
Robert Butterworth, a Los Angeles-based child psychologist, spoke with
NEWSWEEK's Jessica Bennett about the tricky dance that parents do
when asked about jolly old St. Nick. Excerpts:
'Is Santa Claus Real? Well sure he is! In the same sense that 'God' is real.
He's a 'warm', jolly, and 'giving' individual who resides in a very warm
place somewhere in our imagination. That's were some people's 'loving' and
'caring' -- as well as 'good' God -- resides as well. If only the religious
'literalists' would have left him that way and not turn what once was a
'warm and fuzzy' (though completely imaginary) God into a 'tool' to
'bewitch' believers with. The scum! They've all but destroyed the 'God' of
'good', morally upstanding Christians with their unrelenting attempt to
'Reclaim America for Christ!' treason. The nut-jobs!
'Santa'? Well, the retailers and TV ads and over-commercialization have
pretty much done him in.
Merry Christmas. (Hey! I didn't shrivel up and die saying that! Will
'miracles' never cease?)
Greywolf
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