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Should children be allowed to believe in Santa Claus? |
Totally, let them keep their innocence |
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No way, I don't like lying to innocent children |
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Who cares? |
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:50 pm
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Okay, so everyone has the should a kid belive in Santa or not?
UPDATED: Personally, I don't think so because you're tricking your kid, or sibling, cousin, or whoever's younger than you are. Why try to teach kids to be honest if you're going to let them believe in a fictional character for 7 or 8 years or for however long. Besides, you don't need him to learn the spirit of Christmas. The true spirit can be taught by parents, Santa just helped.
Besides, sometime in the future, I wouldn't like my children to think it's ok to believe in fiction to get a true meaning of a value or moral.
#1 Rule: NO BASHING!!!!! Everyone is entiteld to their own opinion, so let's keep this mature.
Thank you! xd
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:14 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:19 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:46 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:56 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:04 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:08 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:24 am
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I was poor kids, wasn't it? Too lazy to clicky aretoo's link on my brother's craptastical computer. Father Christmas in his many forms has been around for centuries longer than Coke. The coca-cola corporation needed a popular figure from world folklore to latch onto for their ads. If they had simply invented him out of thin air, it wouldn't have been nearly so successful.
After my younger brother turned 12 or 13, my family started being santa to each other. We all buy one small $5-ish gift for each other family member, wrap it, and put it in their stocking. Katie (my oldest niece) was old enough to know about "santa man, ho-ho-ho!" last Christmas (she was a couple of weeks shy of her second birthday) and this year we expect her to get very excited. She and her little sister, the only children in the family, won't know that Santa is actually ALL the parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents until they get big enough to figure it out. We also wrap larger gifts to give each other and put them under the tree. Santa just fills the stockings. He (well, I actually) did leave a wooden block train under the tree for Katie's first Christmas though.
Sometimes Santa and/or the Easter Bunny has "talked to" mom or dad in regards to certain gifts or whatever. I always figured they had an agreement, and therefore it wasn't "sneaking into" our house since they were expected. If Santa showed up on random nights when everyone was sleeping then it would be a problem!
I don't think of things like santa/the easter bunny/the tooth fairy as lying to kids. My parents never sat me down and told me they weren't real, I just eventually figured it out for myself. I had about a year where I kinda wanted to believe all that stuff was real, but resigned myself by the time the next Christmas came around. There was never the sense that my parents were lying to me, no moment of horrific betrayal or shattering of childhood illusions.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:30 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:59 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:04 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:54 am
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