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RE: Today's Christmas I woke-up late but it's great compared to when I was young I'll wake-up early and then experience the misery
It's the first time I jear about a difference made between children within one family. With us all receive the same, no mattee the godfather or mother.
We will first go to pay respects to my mother, then she will give us equal amounts of cash gift which was the usual thing to get for convenience. Before that we were bought new clothes to wear.
The difference on collecting cash gifts and gifts if you ever receive one happens depending on how many godfather and godmother you have aside from many relatives you can pay respects with in order to collect things from them.
That is why I would envy one of my friends come Christmas time, he had a lot of relatives here in our Barrio because he can collect much money while I myself can only get a little amount until my godmother went to the states.
It was still fun regardless but I can always feel the frustration everytime every year when I was still young after the Christmas day is done. Miss @wakeupkitty
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I have no godfathers or godmothers, no one in my family has. To us it's a Catholic thing. If we want someone to take care of our child when we pass aways we have to make a last will and pay a few hundreds of euros. Still, you can never be sure what happens after you die. The state easily takes children away and puts the in foster care where many are abused or they disappear (child trafficking?).
I made my eldest child the guardian of my youngest and my friend did the same. It's the only way to keep the family complete although a 12 year old can choose where to live.
If it comes to the finances I pointed another child. Mainly because she won't spend it easily.
The only habit we had during my childhood is showing the school report to the grandparents and receive a bit of money for that. It was a time we were happy with 10 cents or 25 l, while today children are not even happy with 100 euros.
Well, the elderly died and I guess, I took there place since two generations died during the same two years. There's no one left to gift or I would like to gift except for my children as friend.
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Yes Miss @wakeupkitty, the godparent thing is just a Catholic church invention, godparents really has no legal obligation about their godchildren but the immediate family or relatives of children who happens to lose their parents from one reason or another.
Family ties here in my country is strong and if it happens that a child for example lost both of its parents and temporarily cannot be taken by its relatives, the state from the Barrio council level up to the local government "municipality or city" government will try to locate its nearest of kin to inform them to take care of the orphaned child.
If there will be totally no relatives to take care of the child, it is taken to government institution for orphans. Sometimes such orphans doesn't like to be in those institutions so they would try to escape and live on the streets but it is a rare occurrence because most of the time a family or relative will take care of the orphans.
The child is not automatically sent to some foster parent/home which is common in western countries, and like you said, the child most of the time gets abused if not trafficked. I can't put my head into that fact where orphaned children are given to strangers which had no blood relations to an orphan.
Anyway, it is a tradition here in my country during Christmas time for the kids to go to their godparents, pay respect, and receive their gifts. However, this tradition seems to be not being popular to "modern" kids as most would just stay at home and watch TV, use their smartphones, and stay at home.
Maybe because they think that going to the place of their godparents are not worth it anymore because most likely the cash gift they will receive from them are lesser than their day allowance coming from their parents when they go to school these days unlike in my time where getting a paper money in higher denomination and then gifts if you are lucky are regarded as so big of deal that we thicken our faces and build inner strength just so we can get near people whom we never talk to just to receive something...or nothing at all and will just ask, who are our parents, or say, your father is richer than my husband and things like that.
My uncle (my father's cousin) even told me and my siblings even said to us after asking who is my father was, said that my father was only his employee. I think that statement flew of from my bother's ears but I remembered it clearly. A year after, I didn't bother going to their house anymore.
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