One thing I do hate about Christmas is that for a poor family with kids, if they still believe in Santa, they're going to wonder why they don't get the same thing rich kids do, and it's going to hurt, and they will probably feel jealous and sometimes angry. I think it's fun to believe when you're little, like so little that you wouldn't think about things like why someone else got better gifts than you did. I was always so excited when I'd wake up in the morning. I'd sneak downstairs and I'd see presents and I'd be overjoyed. But that was a long time ago. I stopped believing in Santa when I was 10. Kids now, for the most part, expect so much to be given to them. They've become spoiled and lazy. They expect mommy and daddy to buy them the latest things and become tired of them when something new comes along, and mommy and daddy just wasted a couple hundred bucks on some electronic that they're not even going to use anymore. I mean not every kid is like that, but there are so many that are. And it's not just young kids either. A lot of preteens and teenagers are just as bad, if not worse. You have to get them the latest gadget so they'll look cool in school. A lot of them are too old for Santa, but they still don't know that money doesn't grow on trees. And with all the commercial garbage on TV and online, it only makes it worse at Christmas. I grew up before the internet existed, so I didn't have that to look at. The internet has made some things easier, and some things worse. You can't even go on Facebook without having ads shoved down your throat. I'm happy to be around the ones I love, I'd be fine if I didn't get anything, just have good company and good food. But my niece, who's 5, is just as bad as these kids I'm talking about. Her papaw and mamaw buy her whatever she wants. She expects it. She has no discipline and is a nightmare to try to correct when she does something wrong. She wants lots of makeup, Bratz dolls, Justin Bieber stuff, I mean come on, when I was five I played with my Lite Brite, Easy Bake Oven, regular dolls (like Cabbage Patch), and I watched silly shows (Gummi Bears, Talespin, You Can't Do That On Television, Duck Tales, Muppet Babies, Today's Special, Count Duckula, Pinwheel, David the Gnome...). That's when TV and toys were the best. I had my Candyland game, Mousetrap, Thin Ice, oh man, those were the days. Christmases now will never be the same.