I didn’t let my kids believe in Santa

I just looked at a ,45 sec clip of a fraternity brother calling another fraternity brother's 35 year old autistic son who is very low functioning. Calls him every year and says he's Santa Claus. Watching that young man get excited and interact with him tells me what I need to know about Santa Claus. Look forward to it every year.
 
heel79 said:
I just looked at a ,45 sec clip of a fraternity brother calling another fraternity brother's 35 year old autistic son who is very low functioning. Calls him every year and says he's Santa Claus. Watching that young man get excited and interact with him tells me what I need to know about Santa Claus. Look forward to it every year.
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This perfectly captures my feelings about Santa Claus :love:

Thank you heel79 ... This post is going to make my day !
 
Centerpiece said:
We’re all just the stories we are told and the stories we tell.
We can be a Grinch, or a Scrooge, or Santa.
We can give or take.
It’s all pretty simple stuff.
And telling kids bedtime stories of little red riding hoods, 3 little pigs, or Snow Whiite has never really hurt anyone. Leaving a quarter under a pillow in place of a lost tooth. An Easter basket of colored eggs or a stocking full of candy canes has never hurt anyone either.
Bring the evergreens in the house and have a cup of good cheer.
Banish that December chill.
Celebrate the longest night of the year (or day as it were, in the distant South).
Sing songs. Make merry. Believe what you will and don’t give a flying flip what others believe or not… but do be giving of yourself to those around you.
Whether or not you give anything to the kids in your circle is down to you. And nobody can judge you on the merits of your giving as long as it’s all good and means no harm. No harm will come of that, surely.
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Cool story bruh
 
Believing in Santa is like believing in magic. I'm not sure why this is so hard for people. You aren't lying to them claiming Trump won the 2020 election. You are just giving kids a little magic for the holiday season.
 
CFordUNC said:
Definitely think everyone should do what they feel is the right thing for their family and certainly don’t begrudge anyone who chooses not to do the Sant thing. But man, this Christmas season is the first one where my 3 year old really has the “belief” and it’s been so freaking fun and awesome seeing how happy and excited it has made him.
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Right?

My boy is the same age, and last year he didn't really get it. This year, ooo boy.

He *loves* packages that come in the mail, so we're "gift-wrapping" him all his crap by just sticking them into FedEx and USPS bags and boxes. When he comes out Xmas morning and sees all that under the tree, he's going to lose his marbles.
 
Ddseddse said:
The way I personally chose to handle it was as soon as my daughter began expressing any doubts, I began to reassure her in an obviously over the top way that it was all true, which was a transparent nudge,nudge, wink,wink that "you caught us". That gave her permission to feel like she was in on the secret and to not have to go crazy defending Santa at school, but also squeezed out a few more years of us cooperatively playing out the Santa Clause thing inside our family. She's 12 now and we still keep up a semblance that Santa brings her presents. She hasn't believed it for about 4 years now, but we all still enjoy the pretense.
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That's genius.

I hope I remember your strategy whenever our time comes.
 
heel79 said:
At no point in my life did I believe some guy delivered presents to every home in the world in one day. And shimmied down a chimney to do so. I was smarter than that the day I had my first thought. My parents did not have to make such a call.
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And you probably didn't believe that some dude drove around in a truck every morning picking up people's garbage either, did ya?
 
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