Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Mentors are helpful

Are you familiar with the poem The Night Before Christmas? Do you like it? If not, why? Did someone read the poem to you as a child? Did you carry on the tradition with your loved ones?
Good Morning.

Yes. There was a book in my childhood that had the poem in it. I'm not sure if it was my book or my brother's book. I remember the picture of the man with the cap and nightwear. I do remember the first part of the poem. It's an OK poem.
{When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter.}

I read the poem to myself, apparently more than once; since sentences are presenting to my mind as I write this.

No. My children were not given as much attention to reading as I should have been able to give. I was 19 when my first child was born. The two oldest boys had a mother that was still in her own childhood. Plus, I was never around people raising their own children. I did not have a very in-depth high school education. Really I was not smart enough to be raising children at that time.

I still believe you have to have an in-depth, well rounded education to make good choices. Or people around you who are devoted to helping you grow up with enough information to avoid life's pitfalls.