When we were younger, Christmas presents were something you worked for all year and they were your rewards. They were well deserved and you were proud to get them.

Now though, kids seem to think that it is not a privilege, but a right to have Santa bring them their toys. They don’t work hard all year to earn their presents like we did; they think that they just appear simply because they were who they are. Also, we use to ask for our dream toys, like the new Barbie doll or the new Gameboy game, but as technology has advanced, toys have gotten more expensive.

When we were younger out toys might cost $30, but now with children asking for stuff like the new iPad mini or for the baby doll that walks, talks, and wets itself, the toys are more expensive than ever. Christmas used to be a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and peace and joy with your family. It was formed to a day when the jolly St. Nick brought children presents to put in their shoes that were laid by the door where they would get presents for being good, or coal for being bad. It was a marked event in history, like the Christmas in war that everyone took off and sang with the enemies, having a treaty for one night. It has become a commercialized holiday purely for receiving presents though.

Stores have used the holiday as a time to hold mass sales to pull in hordes of customers to spend all of their money on themselves, their families, and their friends. They stress to customers that they have the best products and the best sells on them. They make everyone feel as if they have to buy presents for everyone or else they won’t love them anymore.

Children don’t realize that it used to be a day where Santa brought presents; you opened them with the family, and then spent the rest of the day enjoying time with your family and playing with your siblings and their newest toys. Instead though, kids are tearing into their presents that they “deserved” and are then going to their rooms or outside to play with their toys, before they get bored with them. They don’t realize that they only have so many times that they can enjoy this day before Santa stops and they have to start buying presents for their own children.