He also wonders what about the children in drought/war areas in Africa. If they haven’t enough food to eat or a proper home what does Father Christmas bring them?
I remember a feeling of relief when our youngest realised it wasn’t real and I didn’t have to go through the charade again. I’m sure it was before she was 5 but as the youngest of three she was likely to cotton on faster than the first.
They still prepared a tot of whisky and a mince pie for Mummy to enjoy and hung up their stockings in delighted anticipation until they left home. (Their father cared little about Christmas and went to bed as always at 10 and left me to it. When I invited him to wrap a present or two he grumbled that it was my choice to buy them so many things so not his job to wrap them up)
Our Welfare State. Is it broken?
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My four year old grandson "doesn't want me"