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Girl Threatens Santa

This is how you know that the consumerism of Christmas is the least of the problems with your kid:

Demanding Mekeeda Austin, 13, warned Father Christmas that he will be 'killed' if he fails to deliver at least two of her long list of lavish gifts.


This is pretty pathetic. What was on said list you ask? Oh nothing much. Just a Blackberry, money, a designer sweater, high-top Converse sneakers, Austin Mahone or Justin Bieber (the real-life version), or designer sunglasses.

I think the quickest way to correct this is to give her a lump of coal and let her go journey to the North Pole and try to find the object of her threat. She says, "I don't see any problem with the letter, I want all of these things and I don't see why I shouldn't get them."

Her mother thought it was funny, and intends to indulge her daughters wishes: "When I first found the letter I thought it was funny, now I think I better get her what she wants, the last thing I want is for her to kill Santa. I know it sounds like she is spoilt but I like to get my daughter what she wants also you don't want to get on the wrong side of her."

Parenting. You are definitely doing it very, very wrong.
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  1. Liz12/28/11, 5:15 PM

    That's pretty pathetic in my opinion. Her mom shouldn't get her anything, because the girl obviously isn't grateful for anything. How unfortunate, because he parents aren't doing anything to help her.

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  2. kirkaug12/29/11, 10:00 AM

    I agree Liz. Of course we can see that the reason she is ungrateful is likely in a large part due to poor parenting in the first place, so I guess I would not expect much different from her mother.

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