Seeing Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child: Rekindling the Magic of the Season

Christmas should be a time filled with fun, family, and love. The anticipation leading up to the big day takes center stage in the life of a young person; watching them with wonder as they count down the days until they are surrounded by friends and family exchanging presents filled with excitement on opening morning. The biggest gift one will get when rediscovering Christmas this way isn’t something material; it’s being able to take a step back and simply admire children’s pure innocence while reconnecting with your own inner-child heartily believing in Santa Claus while secretly hoping on getting every wish fulfilled. Such sweet sentiments can inspire our days throughout any season, not just during wintertime holidays!

Seeing Christmas through the eyes of a child is an incredibly important way to experience the magic and joy this special time of year can bring. It also gives us an opportunity to focus on what matters most during this season and not get caught up in the stress of gift giving, parties, or other materialistic concerns. Ultimately, when we see Christmas through the eyes of a child, we are reminded that it is a time for boundless joy, openness to new experiences, exploration of our imaginations and happiness without expectation or limitation.

The holiday season is a time to enjoy the spirit of Christmas and all the wonderful experiences it can bring. This year, make an effort to see it all through the eyes of a child. Here are some practical steps you can take to relive those memories and experiences that made the holidays so special as a little one:

• Take Time to Relax: Nothing was more enjoyable as a child around Christmas than having some down time with family and friends. Make sure this season you are taking moments to relax with loved ones.
• Shop for Others: The act of shopping for others around the holidays brought us our own sense of excitement and delight when we were kids. Capture once again what it was like by getting involved in gift giving this season, whether it be contributing ideas for your family or trudging through stores looking for presents for others, big and small.
• Create New Traditions: We’re sure there are traditions we may have done during our childhood but revisit what really stood out as memorable and create new ones centered around them.

Reconnecting with our childhood holiday spirit takes efforts, but there are many ways to do it, from being conscious about why feelings change over time, to welcoming new ideas and traditions into our lives that provide us comfort throughout this special season. If we take extra time to focus on those feel-good moments within us and among those in our community, recovering our holiday spirit won’t be so difficult after all!