Madonna and Guy Ritchie are either teaching their kids a valuable lesson about what’s really important at Christmas or … they both might just be British scrooges. There will be a holiday celebration at the Ritchie’s $5 million London townhouse, but the adults will not be exchanging gifts and each of the couple’s three children will receive only three gifts each. The highlight of Christmas day will be the low-fat macrobiotic holiday feast consisting mostly of grains and vegetables prepared by their personal chef. Yum.

And forget about cool gifts like ipods or Wii’s. These kids barely get to watch tv and use the family computer so I doubt Santa leaves them mind-numbing gifts like that.

Madonna says the reason for the scaled back family tradition is that she hates the commercialism of Christmas. I’m sorry…did Madonna say she hates commercialism? The woman who has marketed herself in the most commercial way she could think of for the past 30 years? There’s a lesson for her kids, Christmas hypocrisy. Lourdes, Rocco and David will probably be getting the “How To Fake A British Accent…Badly” cd’s  in thier stockings.

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