How cute, no babies myself, but I love 'em!
My aunt was telling me a story about my younger cousin, Inaara who is in KG this year. Inaara is a handful, but its mostly because she’s too clever for her own good.
Around the end of the year, the school was filled with holiday festivities. It’s a cheerful time for all of us in States, whether or not we are celebrating specific holidays. So of course my aunt was shocked when she got a phone call from Inaara’s teacher and was asked to come in to school. Apparently, Inaara had been ruining all the other kids fun by telling them Santa was not real. She was SO adamant in her beliefs that she made a few kids cry. The teacher repeatedly asked Inaara to apologize to the other students, but she refused to as she insisted that Santa was not, in fact, real. This was my baby cousins first real experience with Christmas. Up until now she had only seen it on TV and never experienced it first hand. To her it was obvious that Santa was not real, that elves aren’t magical short people, that there’s no naughty or nice list (because if there was she would be the first to be shorted on presents!) and that the only way a reindeer could have red nose would be if he had a bad case of the flu. The thing was, she had no problem revealing these absolute truths to her classmates as well.
It was definitely controversial in their small suburban school for a little brown girl to be stealing so many children’s childhood fancies. My poor aunt was in such a bind, the teachers insisted that action be taken and on the other hand she knew her daughter was right! Ultimately, Inaara had some lessons to learn about tact and not being such a know it all! My aunt also decided to embrace some Christmas tradition and put up a tree in the house. She thought this might be a away to warm Inaara up to the holiday and traditions. Inaara is now proud to tell the other students that she although she has a tree, it is her parents that put the presents under it! 