“…the tenth most popular Christmas wish on the list was a ‘Dad’.”
Merry Christmas everyone.
And for you Dads out there, it’s nice to know (or maybe sad to know) that you are the 10th most requested gift from Santa according to an article at The Telegraph:
When it comes to Christmas, it might be safe to assume children will ask Santa for an extensive list of toys, games and treats.
But a survey of their typical lists for Father Christmas has shown many have more serious concerns, requesting “a dad” instead.
A study of 2,000 British parents found most children will put a new baby brother or sister at the top of their Christmas list, closely followed by a request for a real-life reindeer.
A “pet horse” was the third most popular choice, with a “car” making a bizarre entry at number four.
Despite their material requests, the tenth most popular Christmas wish on the list was a “Dad”.
It would be interesting to get the ranking of “Dad” among those children without one rather than among all children.
Where’s the Amazon portal?? Santa gave me so many Amazon gift cards, I could open a frikkin’ casino. (I’ll hit the Instahubby’s portal. I’m assuming he’s the sharing type.)
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Did you notice that ‘having a mother’ was down at #23 on the list? (And that little fact wasn’t mentioned until the very last?)
I’ll bet the feminasties are stamping their feet, screaming, cursing, and throwing things around over that!
(But remember…”it’s for the chiiilllldddrrreeen!”)
One of the saddest things I’ve seen in many a year came when I bought a laptop from a quite decent guy who’d unwillingly become a single dad after his wife left him. While I was waiting for him to prepare it, his daughter of about seven was dancing around the room in a yellowed white dress that looked like something she might wear at a wedding. She was, she told me, re-enacting the day when her parents would marry again.
Her dad didn’t seem to know what to say.
Ouch. One of the worst parts of my job as a therapist is helping children to understand that their mom and dad will not get back together. It sucks.
If reality were not so important, I would never tell them.
Trey
It would be a big event if an army of men could become temporary dads to the children who need a dad for the purpose of restoring their real dad to the child. I do this with boy who say to me countless times how much he loves me and wants me as his dad. But now at 12 he has his real dad and many others who are dad’s to him and mothers to him. Not once did I have to say one bad word about his real dad just be a role model and his real dad is now becoming the best of dads with the help of the army of angels in the invisible
Now I take interest in a 4 year old girl and a 3 year old boy and a 3 week old baby to be temporary dad to. Yikes! All of a sudden their young Mama start to have beauty smile on her face after 9 months of great sorrow carrying great shame in the eyes of the blind and in no time she become so beautiful she look like one of the female angels that come down from heaven that visit me in my sanctuaries
But is warning to those who play dad . Always resist temptation and treat Mama as you would Holy Mary Mother of God and bow your head very low and if this is not your way see her as your daughter and incest is great great sin against God and nature and the temporary children you adopt so one day they can find their real dad and find their real wife or real husband because marriage is the normal way to prepare the human being for heaven I believe
The master of a household once had 4 wives, 5 mistresses, and 10 concubines. Don’t feel too sad about it.
I used to be that little kid. Begging my mom for dad to come back, not realizing until later that she was the reason he wasn’t there. Mom was the one who grabbed my brother and I and jumped on a bus to go hundreds of miles away.
While I was begging God, Santa and mom for a dad, my dad was coming home to an empty apartment.
Maybe Santa needs to be a family court judge.
Maybe Santa needs to monitor buses for “Mom-napped” kids.
Maybe I’ll just warn my sons not to ever get married so they can be their own Santa! THAT WAS EASY!
Ya, let’s go with door number 3!
After 50 years of government aided, feminist warfare against men and fathers, what do you expect?
As I divorced father who dearly loves his kids, I thought tooth and nail to get joint physical custody of my 3 youngest kids (the ones still minors). My ex repeatedly filed motions in court to deny me joint physical custody. I won every time. She reacted by contributing as little as possible to their support, medical insurance, educational costs, etc. plus undertaking parental alienation attempts.
All my kids ended up staying with me 90% of the time or more. The only remaining minor child, my 16 year old daughter, refuses to stay with her mother and rarely speaks to her due to her mother’s verbal abuse and occasional physical abuse. She hasn’t spent the night with her mother in over a year. Yesterday, Christmas, my daughter and oldest son (age 24) refused to visit their mother for Christmas because they were tired of “putting up with her shit.”
It’s a sad situation. I’d prefer they have a mother they could love and cherish. But, I shudder to think how they may have ended up had they not had a father to turn to in their time of need.
For those men who want to join THE ARMY of God great almighty power fall in your lap i believe from your mustard seed faith and then you understand VENGENCE is MINE I will repay says the Lord
However , the army of men who have the Army of Angels above their heads are innocent as lambs without thoughts of calling down fire from heaven upon their “enemy” as we see with the Mr spengler who do this around the corner from where I live kill his sister and the firemen who try to save her what happens if you have Vengence in your heart . Yikes!
This great power from prayer ascending to these beast angels above your head toward the people in your life you learn quickly to pray blessing prayers for all the people in your life for and then the beast angels inspect them and I see how RUTHLESS they can be to straighted out the rif raf figure of speech
However a beast angel may look at the wolf man pretending to be lamb and announce to all the other beast angels: ” He is the reasson why his wife is not a saint right now and why his children does not talk to their Mama is 62.6 percent his fault and in no time the army of beast angels will send the proverbal fire down from heaven so man can repent in total so even his wolf smile leave him
The Beast Angels are so ruthless the demons just hear your name when you have become innocent as a dove under their protection and they flee with tail between their legs holding on to their heads knowing of very very long reach of these BEAST ANGELS out to protect God’s innocent doves
(Those without faith must find another way to solve their great problems and hopefully it does not become this calling fire down from heaven like this Mr William Spengler do and end up in hell for what feels like eternity
It would be interesting to see the entire list. I can’t seem to find it on the Telegraph article, although maybe I’m missing it.
I imagine the list would be higher among children who don’t have a dad. It might also conceal children living with a stepfather they don’t like or are confused by but are afraid to say anything about. (Yes, there are good stepfathers, I know some, I’m just saying.)
Modern Britain: What left/liberals want America to be.