November 11, 2009

Somewhere along the line, Santa went from a guy who fulfilled his annual obligation by dropping off a wooden train or a whistle to having to take down lists, and check them twice to make sure that little Timmy gets all 32 things he wanted.

To say Christmas has gotten out of hand is an understatement.

You can't ignore it, but if you are Arita Trahan you reinvent the whole idea of Santa.

Disconcerted a few years back, Trahan set out to re-imagine Santa. Instead of a mystical creature who feeds our basest material desires before vanishing into the haze of our adulthood, Trahan's Santa is in all of us, and can be played by all of us (it almost becomes more of a verb than a noun). With the release of her book, "The Santa Story Revisited: How to Give Your Children a Santa They Will Never Outgrow," she lays out the secret to creating a more rewarding, constructive, and stable Santa experience for our children.

Click here to view in PDF format as posted in OhGoOutside.

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