Letter to Santa Claus: how to write correctly, advice from a psychologist

The fairytale wizard has turned into an online store where you can send a request and wait for a courier to deliver the goods. But his mission is to work miracles!

The approach of the New Year, even for an adult, is a time of waiting at least for something new and good. What can we say about children! At the same time, a holiday for them is both decorating the house, and the appearance of a Christmas tree, and preparing surprises for friends and family, and a trip with their parents to a skating rink or to a park with illumination. And of course, they are waiting for gifts from Santa Claus. But stop. It is we, adults, who teach our children to wait for material confirmation of the miraculous. Long before the process of writing the cherished letter to Santa Claus, we ask the child: what will you order Grandfather, what gift for the New Year?

Seeing how the child’s faith in miracles disappears too early and the emotional maturation is replaced by the material world, teachers and psychologists, to put it mildly, are worried.

– Remarks about how even at the age of 2-3 years old kids, instead of learning the world and communicating, are focused on the screens of gadgets, have already set their teeth on edge, says Elena Abramova, a child psychologist, teacher with 37 years of experience. – Our task now is to teach a child to enjoy the smallest: only in this way, as he grows up, he will learn to set great life goals and achieve them. After all, when you rejoice in the small, you appreciate the big.

Indeed, often after a holiday in a group of preschool children, you can observe a picture of how they ask each other: what did Santa Claus give you? And they compare: whose gift is greater, more expensive, more significant. This means that requests will grow and grow every year. And when one day the child realizes that Santa Claus does not exist, the requests will turn into demands and will be directly broadcast to the parents.

You do not need to have the gift of a predictor to understand: in a few years these children will find themselves in adolescence, and their parents will grieve about the topic “he doesn’t need anything but a computer (phone, tablet) from this life!”

What to do? Can’t just cancel the tradition of writing a letter to Grandfather Frost on New Year’s Eve?

– You can write a letter. But not with the aim of asking for a gift, – advises Elena Abramova. – You can ask how Grandpa is doing, how he copes with his work, if he needs something to help him. Tell how the child is doing, what impressed him the most this year, how he grew up and what he learned. Wish Grandfather health, a good New Year …

A gift “from Santa Claus”, which the child will find under the Christmas tree on January XNUMX, can be a toy made by the mother’s hands secretly from the baby or a letter from “Grandfather” with approval of the child’s achievements and the best wishes for the next year.

In the first seven years of life, it is especially important for a person to understand: the world is kind. This is his dock, the foundation for the future. The task of parents is to teach a child from childhood not only to accept, consume, take, but also to do, create and give! Let something small – to your loved ones, family, and your neighbor too! Then the world will become happier, kinder, and the whole life of a person is fastened on this.

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