From Jim Ainsworth, Kingsland, Herefordshire, UK
You ask if Santa’s festive surveillance brings about an improvement in children’s behaviour. A 6-year-old granddaughter was being encouraged to behave particularly well in the run-up to Christmas because Santa is all-seeing. When she encountered actual Santa in his grotto, he, not having been properly briefed, made the mistake of asking her whether or not she had been good. “You should know!” she told him (14/21 December 2024, p 10).
