妈妈分享一个圣诞妙招，阻止孩子们在商店里买玩具
妈妈分享一个圣诞妙招，阻止孩子们在商店里买玩具
It’s a difficult time to be a parent. Shops are putting up their Christmas decorations and kids are really noticing them. Especially in the toy section. They want their gifts and they want them now.
现在是为人父母的艰难时期。商店正在挂起他们的圣诞装饰品，孩子们真的注意到了。尤其是在玩具区。他们想要他们的天赋，现在就想要。
So, after one mom got sick and tired of in-store meltdowns, she decided to put an end to them. And found a brilliant way to do so as well. Kristina Watts from Belfair, Washington came up with a simple yet genius trick – creating a photo wishlist.
因此，在一位母亲厌倦了店内的崩溃后，她决定结束这种情况。并且找到了一个绝妙的方法。来自华盛顿贝尔菲尔的克里斯汀娜·沃茨想出了一个简单却天才的点子——创建一个照片愿望清单。
The mom-of-three said everything started last year. “Our town was hit by Hurricane Michael, a Cat 5 hurricane, and it was devastating. I was approached to help find a way to provide Christmas toys for a local Title 1 Elementary school. The church that usually supplies Christmas gifts to Lucille Moore Elementary couldn’t do it last year because everyone was struggling so much. So I made an Amazon Wishlist for all 500 kids, kindergarten – 5th grade, and went LIVE on Facebook and called my friends to action. Within days, our house was filled with toys from people all over the US. Then we added a second school and before we knew it, we had our own USPS truck delivering toys for a week,” she told Bored Panda.
这位三个孩子的母亲说，一切都始于去年。“我们的小镇遭到了迈克尔飓风的袭击，这是一场毁灭性的飓风。有人找到我，请我帮忙想办法为当地一所小学提供圣诞玩具。通常向露西尔·摩尔小学供应圣诞礼物的教堂去年无法做到这一点，因为每个人都在苦苦挣扎。于是，我在亚马逊上为所有500名从幼儿园到五年级的孩子做了一个愿望清单，并在Facebook上进行了现场直播，号召我的朋友们行动起来。几天之内，我们家就堆满了来自美国各地的玩具。然后我们又增加了一所学校，在我们知道之前，我们有了自己的USPS卡车运送玩具一周，”她告诉Bored Panda。
“We had about $45,000 worth of toys and Razor scooters in our garage and bedroom. Our kids helped my husband and I unbox and organize all of them. Of course, as a two-year-old, you want all the toys that are in your own house. Dolls, arts and crafts, everything you can imagine. It was like having our own toy store. [Emmie] wanted to open and play with everything and did not understand that they weren’t for her. I mean she was 2!”
“我们的车库和卧室里有价值4.5万美元的玩具和电动滑板车。孩子们帮我和丈夫打开箱子，把它们整理好。当然，作为一个两岁的孩子，你想要所有的玩具都在你自己的房子里。布娃娃，工艺品，任何你能想到的东西。就像拥有自己的玩具店一样。[埃米]想敞开心扉，玩这些玩具，却不明白它们不是为她准备的。我是说她才2岁!”
“So, I started to take pictures of her with the ones she liked and told her that maybe she can get one too,” Kristina explained. “It worked. She stopped trying to get everything out of its package. She’d carry it around, take a picture, and put it back.”
“所以，我开始给她和她喜欢的人拍照，并告诉她也许她也可以得到一张。”克里斯汀娜解释道。“这是有用的。她不再试图把所有东西都从包裹里拿出来。她会随身带着它，拍张照片，然后放回去。”
“We ended up distributing a toy and Razor scooter to every child at Lucille Moore Elementary, and a toy to each child at Cedar Grove Elementary. Around 1100 kids. It was crazy, but that’s how we started doing it!”
最后，我们给露西尔·摩尔小学的每个孩子发了一个玩具和一个刮胡车，给雪松格罗夫小学的每个孩子发了一个玩具。大约1100个孩子。这很疯狂，但我们就是这样开始的!”
Kristina believes that the hack works so well because the child ultimately feels seen and validated. “Like you’re listening to them and getting excited with them. I’m not promising Emmie all of these toys, nor does she get them all. It’s just hope and joy. It’s the modern-day version of circling all the toys in the JC Penney catalog. We never thought we’d get it all, but it’s fun to dream and feel like your parents are looking.”
克里斯汀娜相信这个方法很有效，因为孩子最终会觉得自己被看到了，被认可了。“就像你在听他们说话，和他们在一起很兴奋。我不会答应给埃米所有这些玩具，她也不会全买下来。只是希望和快乐。这是现代版的JC Penney玩具目录。我们从来没有想过我们会得到所有，但这是有趣的梦想，感觉像你的父母在寻找。”
“A lot of people have been criticizing me for not just ‘saying no,'” she added. “Believe me, my children hear ‘NO’. A lot. This post was just something fun and quick I threw up on Facebook one night. I’m not trying to be a parenting guru, I’m by no means the perfect parent. I’m just another mom, running all the Christmas errands, trying to make shopping a little easier and a little more fun. I’m just trying to do my best and raise decent humans. This hack is just another way to prevent some tears and get through. Plus, how cute is Emmie in all these pictures on my phone?!”
“很多人批评我不只是‘说不’，”她补充说。“相信我，我的孩子们听到的是‘不’。很多。有天晚上，我在Facebook上发了一篇有趣又快速的帖子。我并不想成为一个育儿专家，我绝不是一个完美的父母。我只是一个普通的妈妈，为圣诞节奔波，试着让购物变得更容易，更有趣。我只是尽我最大的努力去培养正派的人。这只是另一种避免流泪的方法。再说，埃米在我手机里的这些照片里有多可爱?!”
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