Santa actor praised for response to girl refusing to sit on his lap TIKTOK: katielovesocialA man dressed as Santa Claus has gone viral on TikTok for his message about consent after a little girl refused to sit on his lap. Content creator Katie Love (katielovesocial) took to TikTok to share a video of a man dressed as Santa Claus talking with her three year-old daughter, Adley. When Santa asked the toddler if she wanted to sit on his lap for a photo-op, Adley responded with a firm \u201cNo.\u201d In response to her reluctance, the actor gave an important lesson on bodily autonomy. \u201cThis is her body, and she\u2019s in control of her body,\u201d he said in the clip, which has gone viral with 2 million views. \u201cWay to stand up for yourself, and way to say what you believe is right,\u201d Santa told the little girl. \u201cIf you don\u2019t want to, you say no.\u201d While the youngster looked a little confused in the video, Love cheered on the bearded man from behind the camera. \u201cThis response was [fire] Thank you Santa for respecting my daughter\u2019s choice & even applauding her for it,\u201d she wrote in the caption. TikTok users flooded the comment section to praise Santa for his progressive message. \u201cLove that he didn\u2019t try to push her into it and that she knew her own mind to say no,\u201d one person wrote. \u201cI love this. No reason to pressure her to be uncomfortable for a picture,\u201d another added. \u201cI just cried. As a child who was uncomfortable w touch and fam who pushed me, this is so good to hear,\u201d a third said. Others shared personal stories of similar experiences. \u201cWhen I was 4 my parents took me to see mall Santa and he walked up to me to say hello and I told him to go away and sit back down and he did,\u201d one person commented. \u201cOur daughter didn\u2019t want to directly sit on Santa\u2019s lap, and when asked she kindly said \u2018no thank you\u2019 and Santa said that was ok!\u201d another shared. \u201cMy daughter saw Santa once and didn\u2019t sit in his lap. I love when kids voices are respected,\u201d someone else wrote. For more entertainment news and other viral stories, be sure to check out our coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Santa actor praised for response to girl refusing to sit on his lap TIKTOK: katielovesocialA man dressed as Santa Claus has gone viral on TikTok for his message about consent after a little girl refused to sit on his lap. Content creator Katie Love (katielovesocial) took to TikTok to share a video of a man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}