But, if you feel you have to give correction ...don't send them packing.

There seems to be a much different standard by what we live by.  But, let's get off the correction subject ...as perhaps it should be brought to light that much correction is not done.

Let's look at 'packaging' instead.  How about Christmas packaging?  It's not primarily advertised as Jesus' birth ...though the knowledge of that probably remains in most people's minds.  

So, we have a huge focus on presents ...or gifts.

I recall the stories about Saint Nicholas, the elves, and the reindeer ...how they were all focused on delivering gifts to everyone's homes.  And the famous warnings, "You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, he's making a list and checking it twice, he's gonna find out who's naughty or nice, he knows when you've been bad or good ..."

Yes, most often they are mild threats ...and false.  In truth, we all expect good things ...in spite of ourselves, and that's a good thing.  But, we learn rather quickly how we can get things ...and our motivation with that is not always good.

The mentality that we are moving towards is more like telling someone what they are going to get you, and that 'they' better be nice about it.  Kind of turns the whole thing around backwards ...and takes the gratefulness out of it.