Why Santa Claus should not bring coal for Christmas

Many parents want Santa Claus to bring Christmas gifts to "good" children, meaning children who don't "cry" and don't "pout" are the only children deserving of Christmas presents. However, the fact of the matter is that threatening to "call Santa" when children act up is not the way to go. 

The Greek root word denoting parental entitlement is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and is defined as, officially speaking, wanting things from children, to the point of imposition. Unofficially speaking, parental entitlement is an adult temper tantrum when you don't get what you feel that you deserve from children. One form of this adult temper tantrum is threatening to "call Santa" when a child doesn't behave in a way you feel deserving of. When this temper tantrum on the part of parents was perceived by the child as offensive or damaging, it was seen as child abuse. See Colossians 3:21 KJV:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers here to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by a child, stemming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and was understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including, but not limited to, any punishments, reprimands, or other controlling demeanor towards children. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children one last time. The parents who punished their parents were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damages of offenses stemming from hostage taking  - child punishment was seen as holding your child hostage merely for things that they did wrong, thereby treating your child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up the Law in order to convict a group of Greek Christians that brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child in his secular writings. Paul may not have gotten along with the women of the church, but he sure loved children, and even took in a few orphaned children during his time as a deacon.

It is considered a moral crime against a child to use Santa as a behavioral modification tool. Whenever you make threats to "call Santa", you are imposing your entitlement for children to be "good", Most childhood behaviors that adults label "bad" are actually developmentally appropriate behaviors. Children will grow out of such behaviors in due time.

When I was a child, I was threatened with coal for Christmas. I was a willful child, and so I had reason to believe at one level that I would get coal for Christmas. That was one reason for me actually asking for coal for Christmas. I was indeed a strange child. I also was interested in the coal regions to the North of my hometown, and so it fit.

Most parents intend Santa as a threat, and that's it. However, a threat like that offends children, and comes from entitlement. The moment you threaten to "call Santa", you are throwing an adult temper tantrum when you feel that you deserve a certain set of behaviors in your child. Any forceful demand, including a vain threat, is entitlement. Any time a parent was angry with a child, it was deemed entitlement then. That is because anger at children comes from parents wanting children to behave a certain way that they feel that they deserve.

A gift is not something earned. It is instead something given to children for free. However, young children are incapable of showing gratitude in the punitive tense. Children instead feel gutteral gratitude. A child should not have to work for something thar they should get for free.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be cast forever into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath day and night forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!