Lying to kids about Santa

I care about peoples opinions when they put thought into them.

Now, might I suggest you make this the last time you try to derail a thread by turning it into a discussion of me. Feel free to ignore that of course.

 

You can have the last word--you deserve it.

 

do i need to point out the irony of this post

or this post:mickey:

 

And this one.

 

@Tom,

The point of my post about the Santa girl this morning was to show that kids do recover from finding out Santa isn't the one leaving gifts under the tree. And that receiving gifts isn't all of what Christmas is about. There is alot more to it than that. Some people here have posted that Santa is a bad thing to tell children about, and Christmas makes them learn to be greedy, etc.

Thinking back (since this thread started), I remember being little and starting to wonder if Santa was real or not. Maybe it was some bomb dropper in kindergarten, or when I saw my parents puting the gifts under the tree with "From Santa" written on them. Like I said before, maybe it was explained to me in a nice way. Or maybe I just 'got it' on my own.

Whatever the reason was, I know I got more of an appreciation of it. I learned that it was fun to be Santa! In grade school we had a thing called 'Secret Santa' where anonymous gifts from us students were mixed up and passed back out to us. I know, at least for me, it was fun to see who got mine. But I didn't tell them it came from me. It was from Santa.

I'm not very good with words, so it's hard for me to explain the feeling I still get after all of these years at Christmas time. I can tell you that it brings joy and happiness every year for me. Funny how when it gets close to Christmas, Christmas songs start to play in my head. Magic?

Christmas is a special time for alot of people in the world. And it has been for a long time. I'm not sorry it's in my heart and soul. That's why I pass it on.

p.s. Merry Christmas!