40 Funny Parents Tweets to Get You in the Christmas Spirit

The OP’s tweet captures that quintessential holiday paradox: toddlers’ simultaneous fear and fascination with Santa Claus. It’s a yearly phenomenon where the beloved bringer of toys somehow also becomes the source of tearful trepidation.

There’s an unspoken tradition of documenting this yuletide terror, as if each snapshot with a sobbing child on Santa’s lap is a rite of passage—a tinsel-trimmed badge of honor that children outgrow but parents never let them live down. It seems that in the world of toddlers, Santa is both a merry figure of folklore and the ultimate test of stranger danger.