Each year around this time, many adults and parents will be agonizing over what present to buy for their children and their relatives.
Once, I gave two children from a rich family a simple gift. They opened it infront of me and when they saw that their gift they exclaimed that the gift was cheap and proceed to discard it without any thought or rgard to teh giver.
This year, one of my relative warned me that I have to buy better gift for their children as they have already bought expensive gift for mine.
A gift is not an exchange or a transaction. It is an expression of goodwill from the heart. Not all who give Christmas present are rich.
Sometime poor people sacrifice what little bonus they have to give gift fro their relatives.
We bring up our children to appreciate whatever gift is given to them, no matter how inexpensive it is, to receive the gift with a grateful heart and not to judge the gift by it momentary value.
This Christmas, let us teach our children to accept gift from our friend and relatives with grace and dignity and not to expect expensive gift especially since many of us have been retrenched or lost our jobs.
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