When My Kids go to school they say Santa is fake they tell them !!shushhh! We know!
But are the consequences of lying to them, if we know Santa will never show?
My bet is that most stackers will completely disagree with me, but I don't think it's such a bad thing for young children to have a little sense of joy and magic in their lives. Yes, it's a lie. Yes, the world is an ugly place. But they'll have plenty of time to discover that as they grow up.
I remember my mom taking me out on our lawn on Christmas Eve night to sprinkle magical reindeer dust or something. I can still remember the feeling of thinking it was like actual magic.
Also this makes me think of this video, he talks about Santa at the end.
Ok I agree it's good to let the kids have fun in fact I encourage that but wouldn't it be a good idea to let them know it's only for fun but nothing serious nor real?
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I see both sides of the issue. I was raised believing in Santa, and I have very fond childhood memories of anticipating Christmas. I don't know if it did me any harm. I was never angry with my parents for lying to me about it. I do know some people who are, though.
There were enough vocal family members conveying the all the usual that I didn't have to voice anything one way or another - I just watched it all play out.
For me, playing the expected wouldn't feel right - and just as strongly, it wouldn't feel right going the other way either. I was, and still am, hands-on but I couldn't do the usual lie - I just watched, with interest, what played out...
Modern culture can be strange thing.
You can extrapolate from this other ways that people go along with things - it just appeared, and still does, as a very weird (and very tacky) hive dance.
From my own childhood, I remember who and exactly where the truth was broken to me when I was a young kid - it was another kiddo of my age. He proudly announced and I listened, secretly shocked with cogs turning in my head.
Years later on a week-long school trip I was told I got out of my bunk-bed asleep, to go to the toilet, but instead went over to this lad's bunk, hit him squarely in the face (while he was asleep) ran, slipped on a rug and carried to bed.
I woke up in the morning tightly encased in sheets and blankets unable to get out of bed - the teacher had bound me within the sheets well and truly!
I often wonder if I did it in my sleep subconsciously because of what he'd divulged..
There are few things that time cannot heal. And when they grow up, they will see that it was for a good cause, and they will most likely do the same with their children
Few potential consequences of lying: