Peccadilloes in Nippon and Nipponese with a Quixotic Perspective. Coming at you from Yokohama, near Tokyo.
December 12, 2006
I'm a part of the lie
At the request of a friend, I have forged two letters from Santa, complete with pictures and exhorations to be good. I even suggested leaving candy and coals in shoes as a pre-Christmas reminder (remember that tradition?). I feel so guilty yet so amused. This must be what parenting is all about.
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Japan,
nostalgia,
slice-of-life
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I'm hoping that through my incredible parenting skills, renowned world wide, published, and sold in both hard cover and paperback versions, and recommended by child psychologists the world over, I will never have to use the Santa method of scaring my children into being nice out of fear of not getting presents.
ReplyDeleteIf that doesn't work, I'll just take embarassing videos of them and threaten to put them on youtube if they run with scissors just one more damn time.
There are worse lies you could be a part of.
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