Why Christmas isn’t for kids

Christmas in the United States is a holiday chiefly for children. It is a season of candy canes and presents, “A Christmas Story” and the Grinch, mall Santas and the exhausted mothers whose valor they steal. At church we organize children’s pageants and choirs. At home, we hang Advent calendars stuffed with cheap chocolate.... read full story

"Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow/ Will find it hard to sleep tonight."