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Christmas is for Kids!

 


Christmas decorations appear in stores in September. Holiday tunes creep into TV and radio broadcasts soon after. December editions of magazines arrive in the mail in early October, laden with red and green Christmas décor. Ugh!

I’m one of those people who is tired of Christmas by the time Halloween rolls around. (And don’t get me started on Halloween, either.) You can call me “Scrooge” or “The Grinch.” I’ll take it as a compliment. But I think holidays should be celebrated when they arrive, not a quarter of a year before. After all, we don’t celebrate the Fourth of July in April.

But then along comes The Times’ special Christmas edition, and I get the chance to read what the kids from Waitsburg Elementary School have to say about Christmas. They love Christmas, and are excited about it. Now I feel kind of ashamed.

This week, the second half of our newspaper is taken over by the kids, along with the generous support of businesses who help make this issue possible. Each grade, from K through 5, offers a different take on their feelings about Christmas – from haikus to stories to Christmas recipes.

I’m especially proud that we can continue this longstanding tradition at The Times again this year, because we’re able to show off the writing by the young people in our community.

As someone who writes for a living, I think it’s important for kids to have the challenge of expressing themselves in writing and then showing off their efforts to the outside world – for better or worse.

Who knows, one of these kids may be filling this space with their own writing a few years from now.

Putting my own Scrooge attitude aside, I hope all of our readers are having a very happy Christmas season, starting as soon as you want it to. And even though I sort of enjoy it, I hope all of you kids out there don’t end up grumpy old Grinches like me.

 

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