👩‍👦"Children Wants/Needs From Santa"

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Here’s my morning jargon before we dive deep into this article. Inflation is kicking my butt 😅 Eggs, Starbucks, McDonald’s and all my essentials just keep going up. McDonald’s no longer have 1$ drinks, but worse in my area there is no longer a dollar menu!! And don’t get me started on housing prices…

Got me shaking in my boots! But the biggest worry for this holiday season for me are the prices of toys. Yes, yes, it’s the time of the year where we get to be a fictional character named Santa and our children tell us their needs and wants.

So, i’m not here to discuss whether you should let your kids believe in Santa or when to have the talk that Santa isn’t real. Our talk will put your relationship with your kids on the spot and shape and mold your communication style.

From the title it might discuss how to have the conversation about wants and needs with your children. However, I want to look at the overall communication and how we can use the holidays to find examples of compromise, listening, open communication, team problem solving. Still confuse on what I mean?

Here’s an example:

To the average eye, you might just see a random Reddit commenter on talking about events in their life. With my eyes I am seeing the power of parents respecting their child and being honest with their situation. Next, their child had mutual respect for their parents by listening. With this solid foundation they found a compromise my parents still giving money as a gift and the child ask other relatives to only gift money. However, it wasn’t just compromising but also team problem solving to figure out a solution together. So many skill of gentle parenting was show in this simple post. If you think this is a one off, here’s another one.

This one is essentially a slightly longer one but showing all the same skills with gentle parenting with the added bonuses of patience and empathy. We know this because a more authoritarian approach would be between saying no gifts because of the storming off to just saying you will like what ever I get you, end of discussion. This approach is a no go for authoritative (gentle parenting) approach.

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