Conscious Mom

I'm looking for advice here. If you have kids, and you've successfully navigated the holiday season, please read on and help me! Even though we're not Christian ourselves, our family is so we celebrate Christmas. My family isn't very religious, so Christmas was pretty much all about Santa Claus when I was a kid. But it was a wonderful excuse to gather together in large numbers, eat delicious food, and have fun. And give the kids presents, lots and lots and lots of presents. I don't want to deprive my daughter of presents, well, maybe I do. There's a huge downside to all this adult generosity and it is called 'bratty kid greed'. I see it in children who say 'where's ...