The Polar Train.

I remember when I was a child during Christmas time it was common to hear the story about the Polar Train, this magic train that was kind of a helper for Santa, and it traveled all over the world during the Christmas season, delivering the toys and happiness to the children.

During Christmas season, stories like the polar train story, are the kind of stories that parents should try to tell their children, and reinforce the Christmas spirit even more, and always trying to teach them that Christmas more than receiving, it’s about giving, it’s a time to share and tell them the reason why Christmas is celebrated, is not only about the presents that Santa is going to bring me, also if you buy a toy for child, buy another one for a kid in shelter or a kid that you know won’t have toys for Christmas and have your child give it to him/her, that is a good way to create the habit of charity that seems to be forgotten nowadays.

The meaning of Christmas

This month of December, we are being bombed with a lot of advertisement creating or encouraging to buy this or that product and kids are usually an easy target of different kind of stores, but during this celebration of Christmas, there should be a moment that have to take and talk with our kids about the meaning of Christmas, is not only writing a letter to Santa asking for toys if they were good during the year, or buying a big Christmas tree to put their gifts under, we ought to explain also that on Christmas we celebrate the nativity of Jesus Christ that came to this world to save us, and also it’s not only about receiving nice things, it’s also about sharing and giving, like He did for us, that is a good time of the year to share with those that have less than us and time to forgive and be united in family, in that way they can celebrate Christmas like kids but knowing that there’s a meaning, there’s a reason why we do all those nice things for Christmas Eve.