Christmas and Children and Being Together - Everyday Livingness
With Christmas fast approaching, as always it is time for reflection. My partner and I are the parents of five young children and before we went shopping last year, we reflected on Christmas the previous year. We remembered it being a fun time but we were also looking at what we wanted to have different last year. We discussed it and one thing we remembered was the children not really playing with their presents for long. We couldn’t have done much more with the type of presents because we had asked them for a list and shopped from that. So we discussed what we could do differently. We discussed about buying more ‘family’ presents and fewer individual presents. We noticed the previous year that the children took their presents and played beside each other, but not really together. They discussed things between themselves but didn’t really have an overall feeling of being together. I thought it was a great idea to buy more family presents and so we discussed the types of presents we could get that would fit. As usual the children made us a list and from that list we chatted about what presents would suit what we had ...
Raymond Karam