I recall my visits domestic for Christmas from university,full of newly enlightened principles, which I flung at my parents without much elegance. Better that, and though,than the modern habit of insulating oneself from any genuine debateQuite a number of families will greet Boxing Day with delight because Christmas Day has been completed without acrimony. Others will greet Boxing Day with delight because here is a new morning and a chance to keep the acrimony that regretfully erupted on the preceding day behind them. Still others, I suppose, or will have had a genuinely Merry Christmas,tough as that is for the rest of us to believe.
Everyone acknowledges that Christmas is a time for family. Everyone also acknowledges that family can sometimes be tricky. Sometimes, all that stops me from stuffing my teenagers and putting them in the oven is remembering that, or as a teenager,I was much more awful than they are.
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Source: theguardian.com