There are a million ways to raise a child.

Every element of their lives comes with options, whether it be diaper thickness, home schooling, butt rash creams or buying the car seat with swivel and lock technology because your kid deserves the Cadillac of comfort and safety.

There are a million ways to raise a child and no matter what choices each parent makes, they just want their babies to be healthy and happy.

But the one thing that seems to be a constant is young mothers taking their parenting style to social media and telling others their way is the “right” way.

Over the holidays, there was a mile long Facebook post about how parents should make the cheapest of their gifts from Santa so every kid gets an equal present. The reason being so kids of less fortunate parents don’t feel like Santa doesn’t love them as much as he loves other kids.

Well, here’s the thing: your kid doesn’t actually care.

Take the Lalaloopsy Diaper Surprise doll for example. Commercials for this creepy, button eyed baby were on every cartoon channel throughout the Christmas season.

Basically, you feed your Lalaloopsy water, press her belly “button,” and watch her poop a steaming pile of charms you can string on a bracelet and wear proudly on the playground.

It was the strangest, most awful concept for a toy and even then I knew every girl would go to the mall and ask Santa for a turd-jewel making baby doll to love and call her own.

Your little girl doesn’t care if her charm pooping doll was only $30 and little Susie from school got a $50 china doll from the antique shop. All she knows is that she asked Santa for a Lalaloopsy Diaper Surprise and it was under the tree on Christmas morning.

Your kid simply wants a pooping doll, a ton of sugar, movies, Christmas carols and quality time with you.

And if your six-year-old is more concerned with the price tag on his light up sneakers than he is about running at the speed of light, you’ve done something wrong as a parent.

Kids don’t see dollar signs on their toys just the same as they don’t see race, gender or social class.

They learn these things because there are parents out there who seem to think their kid receiving a gift of less value than someone else will make them feel like Santa favors other children over them.

Things like racism exist because there are parents who still aren’t allowing their children to have black friends. Women don’t have equal rights because little boys are still being told they “throw like a girl” as if being a girl is an insult.

No matter the year, how much technology advances or where in the world we are, kids will always become what we make them.

They’ll inherit all the habits and beliefs we intentionally teach them, but they’ll also learn all the ones we show them every day because they are so much smarter than we give them credit for.

They will see you look at homeless people with disgust, throw your candy wrapper on the ground or catcall a woman in the middle of the super market.

Hatred, bad manners, nasty attitudes and materialism aren’t things they are born knowing. They are things we teach our children when we convince them that the magic of the season of giving can be limited by the wallet.

Santa can’t be blamed this time.