Christmas

Christmas day typically is a day of fun for children and this to a point has not changed. On Christmas day in the Melody Stories, Lurking Dragon establishes that even though gifts and presents and fun is still to be had on Christmas day, for Hard Time Pennies Christmas is assigned as a Special Punishment Day with court authorised switchings.

Factual Origins
Derived from the old image of the Green Suited "Father Christmas" from old England, Christmas has been re-interpreted. The old Santa, before the reform of the Victorian era had brought not just gifts but also punishments, with naughty children getting only coal and switches intended to be used on the penny. This is true of the Rejuve verse.

Only used on, the new Father Christmas now leaves (Under orders from corrections) a number of lumps of coal (fake. Why would the use real coal - its messy and has no use) and along with the coal between two to four switches of various severity or perhaps a cane or two.

While the majority of the day for pennies is still Christmas dinner, toys if they behaved well enough and gift giving, every penitatas has to count out their coals and receive that number of stokes on their rump with each implement Santa gave them. Fortunately these are usually spread out over the course of the day.

Visiting Santa
Additionally at Christmas time there is a tradition of visiting Santa at the mall. Children are not obligated to do this but it can be beneficial. Any penny who goes before Santa is permitted to ask for one or two 'Gifts'. Things they would like, spanking related or not. These requests are passed on to Corrections and depending on the child they may receive the present — which is advantageous as pennies can ask for things their parents can't or wont buy them.

On the flip side however, anyone who goes before santa (Regardless what type of child they are) and confesses to having been bad or naughty gets a good old fashioned paddle spanking over their underwear. . . And pennies by tradition MUST confess to being naughty.