I HATE Christmas

I will start by saying that no one here truly hates Christmas, but after a marathon month of watching The 'Grunch' (how the kids pronounce it) Stole Christmas, our tune has changed a bit.

In the beginning of December one of my good friends was having some soul searching with the whole Christmas scene.  She really wanted Christmas to be about celebrating the Saviors birth and not be a who-ra of buying and getting.  Her thoughts kept turning to the 'Grunch' who said 'Maybe Christmas doesn't come from store! Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little more!"  I thought this was so neat and such a great example for me, but I had actually never seen the movie, so I thought that I better watch such an inspiring Christmas movie.  The first time I watched it, I was delighted, I loved it.  From then until Christmas, the kids and I watched the show many many times.
Well, after all the holidays passed we were cleaning up the decorations and I notice that Bruce is singing in his best and loudest baritone voice "I HATE snowmen, I HATE Santa, I HATE Christmas trees, I HATE elf on the shelf, I HATE stockings, I HATE candy, ........." I was appalled, where in the world did he hear that.  I was just about to lay the smack down (Larsen language for REDIRECTING his high frequency of HATE), but then I stopped myself and realized I had unintentionally ingrained the phrase "I HATE CHRISTMAS" in his little head.  We had watched the movie so much that it had became second nature to say ' I hate Christmas. '  Well, after I chuckled to myself a little, I asked him why he hated those things. Bruce looked at me a little confused and professed that he was just singing.  I gave a little reminder of why the Grunch hates Christmas and why it is important not to say HATE so much and now all is well.