what do you tell your kids about Santa Claus? do you keep up the fairy tale and just let them realize the truth on their own? would it upset you if someone told them the truth? why? i'm not a parent, but after seeing my cousin tell her kids to be nice or Santa won't bring them anything just got me thinking about it.
I think kids eventually figure it out once they can read. The tags on the gifts say from Mom & Dad or Aunt Sally or Uncle Ray or something like that, not Santa Claus. The gifts usually start showing up before Christmas too. Kids eventually figure it out.
It depends how old/mature they are. I remember I actually used to believe in him. My parents would get some mud on their shoes and make a trail from the fire place to the tree. What else was I supposed to believe?
Haha, I just found out on my own. We had to tell my little brother because he was getting in fights at school defending his existence. I had a teacher tell me that her daughter totally holds it against her that they lied about SC to her. I thought that was weird. I really haven't met someone actually emotionally scarred from it. If you cant mess with kids heads, I dont see the point in having them.
My parents always put Santa Claus on the tag and hid the gifts until Christmas night and just put them out when we were asleep. There were also gifts from my parents and other family but the best ones were from Santa. I would hope all parents had enough sense to do that.
My ex wife loves the whole Santa Claus thing but I think it is r****ded. My 9 year old says that he still believes but I know damn well that he knows better. I think he keeps up the charade for her. I knew really early that all of the Santa Claus/Easter Bunny/etc. was a bunch of crap so I guess that's why I don't really care. I remember thinking that kids who still believed were idiots. So to answer your question, no it wouldn't bother me at all but I think I'm the exception to the rule.
Yeah, it's "CLAUS." In Spanish, it's "Santa Clos" (san-tah-KLOS). In Mexico, we didn't have a chimney or fireplace or anything like that, so the presents auto-magically appeared on the bed, without a tag. Here in the Estados Unidos, it was weird because we were already older and they still did that crap. It was funny, but it was nice from them. For my 2 girls, I make some noise and ask my wife to watch the door so they don't get up and mess up the entire thing... I make some noise on the ceiling, appear to make bells jingle (sleigh), but by that time the presents from the big guy are already downstairs. They wake up on their own and find them. I pretend to my girls about the entire thing by saying... "why were you girls up in the middle of the night? I heard a lot of noise? You know you're not supposed to be up... " I also leave a note for them from SC asking: "I came by but you were out at your grandparents' house. I didn't know where to leave your presents, but I knew you'd come back here so I left them here. Merry Christmas." I won't explain anything until they really seem like they're getting the idea. Although I am fearful that my eight-year-old might soon find out and out of spite will tell my five-year-old... but I think she's beginning to suspect, since last year we made the mistake of leaving the wrapping paper out, and she said "HEY! That's Santa's paper!" I was all but explained he stopped and used our paper. DrLudicrous, did you really mean "parent" instead of "parents"??
That's exactly what my parents did. Plus, a trail of ash in the shape of boot soles coming from the fireplace to the tree to the plate of cookies back to the fireplace. The only time I ever got suspicious was when we got a gas fireplace and when my dad insisted that we put soy milk out instead of regular milk. Other than that though, my parents did an awesome job for awhile. My Christmas memories will never leave me. As I grew older the memories were more from being with my friends and family over the holidays, but man, all I can remember from ages 3-10 is just the sheer excitement of knowing "Santa came! Santa came!"
Yeah. I was "gifted" with this defect. Sorry, man. I can't stop it. I need some sort of medication for it... YEAH!!!! THAT's IT! I will make up a "mental condition" and make a pill for it... "spell and grammar checker disorder"... I WILL BE RICH, I TELL YA, RICH!!!! Muahahahahaha... Uhhh... should I have kept that secret?!?!? Really, I don't want my kids to find out at all. If they do, I am going to hunt you down, MRMEOWGI...
At 9 years old I found out Santa was a lie and it got me thinkin': "Santa a lie ? Christmas a lie? Christ a lie? God? " I've heard time and time again from everyone I know that I was an extreme exception and Santa is just a fun fantasy and it teaches kids about relationships. But it can also teach them about loss, lies and distrust. "God Bless Us Everyone!" Just something to know. BTW, despite it all I function just fine in society and am quite comfortable as an old dude not knowing all the God answers, etc. And am not an atheist.
be nice or Santa won't bring [you] anything. Your post had no grammatical or spelling errors. Congratulations! For those of you from other countries or other cultures altogether, do you call Santa Claus anything other than that?
The Santa thing is for the parents and the kids NO ONE but the Parents should inform the kids about Santa If you are an Adult. . and do that to someone else's kids you are a douche bag Rocket River
well, parents encourage kids not to lie. isnt' playing up Santa kind of hypocritical? and like Mr. Meowgi said, kids get beat up for it.
Our version of Santa Claus is called: Sinterklaas. He is not identical to Santa Claus:" He give presents on his Birthday: December 5. He comes from Spain. He is a old guy with a beard. He rides a White Horse. The Black guys with him are his helpers, they give you the presents, they run on rooftops. They are called "Zwarte Piet" ("Black Piet" Piet is a common Dutch name)
