“I SWEAR! Just TRUST ME! I am NOT on the NAUGHTY LIST!!!!”
This above video cannot be embedded here but I saw it first on Instagram and then found it on YouTube. Only available by following the link so… before reading on, please click link to view this! I guarantee, you will smile!
Thoughts range from “did this kid just ingest one thousand holiday bon bons” to “where did this kid hear these phrases?!!”
This strikes me as one of the most hilarious things I’ve heard in quite awhile and I’m currently playing it on loop while I work, and both smiling big and shaking my head…
It’s fun to analyze this…seems to be a basic disagreement of premise in this argument between the lad and his Daddy. I wonder where the lad’s Mum was when this was being filmed?!
The lad starts with the premise that he can’t possibly be on Father Christmas’ naughty list because he is not naughty.
The Dad starts with the premise that the lad’s naughtiness (which is in full display in the video and eludes the lad) is the very reason that he is, in fact, on the naughty list of Father Christmas!
We all have our blind spots, right?!
So many things run through my mind as springboard of discussion revolving around this, from permissive to authoritarian to authoritative parenting styles to the history of Father Christmas, Santa and more to biblical ideas about the who, what, when, where, why and how we might get of the naughty list of the Almighty and if that is possible how we get off such a list to biblical ideas of our heavenly Father knowing how to give His children good gifts, far behind the good gifts of imperfect earthly fathers…
So as not to distract from the downright hilarity of this priceless lad/Daddy video no matter how one might view it or other things….I’m making this post short and sweet!
A good way to end this seems to be with another of my favorite videos…Monty Python’s “The Argument Clinic.“
Merry Christmas lads and lasses out there!!!
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