I recently had conversation with my cousin about Santa!
She has a sister-in-law that told her very yound child that there is no Santa and that she buys the toys.
Said sister-in-law also said that she didn't feel it right to lie to her child!
So, I wanna know! What do you think?! What do you DO?!
I mean seriously! Dr. Phil and Oprah say it's completely normal!!
Here are a list of lies that my children will either outgrow and figure out the truth OR will use on their children OR will always believe:
**in no particular order**
1- Your pee pee is gonna fall off if you play with it! (I know, a bit extreme...)
2- You're gonna go blind if you stand too close to the TV!
3- You're not gonna have any friends if you put too much lip gloss on because people are gonna think you're a monster and not a little girl!
4- If you don't bless your food before eating, you're gonna get sick!
5- If you don't say your prayers before bed you're gonna have nightmares!
6- If you don't make your bed your gonna have spiders and bugs in it!
I know...I know...I'm a teeny tiny bit of a drama queen!!
Are there any "lies" you tell your children?
What about Santa & the Easter Bunny?
Start filling out the comment box!!
a couple of years ago I had a really hard time straight up "lying" to my kids about santa....but I got over it. it's been alot of fun. this year at halloween we(me and matt) made them believe that if they didn't hurry and get in their beds and go to sleep they would turn into pumpkins! AND they believed it so much they cried b/c they were scared! horrible I know, but WE are still laughing about it!
ReplyDeleteSanta is NOT a lie! He began as a real being, Saint Nick, that has grown into what he is today. Share with your children how he began! I think too many people are having their children grow up WAY TOO EARLY!! Everyone wants to take away their imagination and their youth!
ReplyDeleteI believe the Savior is the Spirit of Christmas, but Santa allows innocence of a child to live on! My main focus around Christmas is the Savior, Service and Love and little less about Santa, but he is still apart of it. He became real because he served those in need. I feel this way about the Easter Bunny too... Our Easters are more about the Savior and Resurrection and a little less about the Easter Bunny, but he is still apart of it.
What is wrong with believing in something?!? Santa gives hope.
STOP making children GROW UP!
Sorry was that too harsh? This is just how I feel about it. I have NEVER heard any news about a child harming them selves because the found out the "truth" about either. (Everyone in my family has turned out just fine.)
I just talked to my sister and she had a GREAT insight.
Santa is a beginning to help our children have faith in the Savior. We believe in Christ and never see Him, only His miracles. (she said it way better)
sorry for rambling.
Oh Corrine! Thank you for commenting! I agree 150% with you!!! I love the hope and magic it brings. Our family focuses more on the Savior than anything else!!
ReplyDeleteSunny...HAHAHA!! You two are nuts!!!!
I know Saint Nick was a real person and my son know who Santa is (my boys are 3 and 1), but we do not say he brings gifts or magically delivers the gifts or anything. He watches some Christmas shows and thinks they're fun, but we don't lie to him. I know there is a magical aspect to Santa (we did it growing up) but as I've looked back I think it all really took away from the focus of Christmas. So we are SO excited at our house about Jesus' BIRTHDAY and he is going to share all of his presents with him. (: I think if you share the story of Saint Nick that is special but we won't be doing the extreme and commercial thing it has become. I think the lights, Christmas music, the snow, the Christmas tree and decorations are all magical enough. We also wait and put the trees out Christmas eve when the kids are in bed so that adds a magical element, but they're just not from Santa.
ReplyDeleteMy seven year old just figured out the whole Santa thing about a week ago. He's known about the tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny for a while. Let just say I'm not very sneeky. So it didn't take much to put two and two together. And I feel releaved more than anything. He did want to know why we had lied to him too. Witch was hard and my biggest fear to begin with. We went throught the whole story of how it started out as a real story and has become what it is today. I've always had mixed feelings about it. Will he question wheather Jesuse is real too? He hasn't brought this up, but still a fear of mine. My good friend brought up a great point. How do we know when things are real, are true? Throught the Spirit. Even young kids can learn truths this way. I think this is a tough one and you have to do what feels right for your own family. I'll probably do things a bit different for my two year old. I think I have a year to decide how to handle it with her. She only know's there's a fat boy with a beard named Santa pictured, dressed as and statued everywhere right now. We (meaning I) love gifts. Giving and recieving. I love the tradtion and special moments we have had together because of this special time of year.
ReplyDeleteGood Luck!
Santa is very real. There is something magical about gifts coming from a place you aren't sure where, waking up to a room full of presents that weren't there when you went to bed. I still get that giddy, Christmas morning surprise feeling. Santa is a metaphor for Christ- giving gifts without expecting anything back other than his acknowledgment.
ReplyDeleteIn my house we were all taught to believe in Santa. We still do even though all my siblings are grown we still talk about what we want from Santa, and our gifts are still laid out from Santa just like they were when we were 3. My parents always talked about how they believe in Santa. When I was told Santa wasn't real I went to my Mom and she was so matter-of-fact and insistent that he was real and she believed in him, that it totally changed my mind. I thot "Well if she believes, so do I." And that was it. He is the spirit of the gift-giving part of Christmas. Kids love it, adults love it, and even when you have older children that find out the truth, bring them in on the fun and let them help be "elves" for the younger children. Our kids grow up fast enough as it is! Let them enjoy their childhood. No one ever complains about being a kid for too long (altho their spouse might;) but people are always saying they regret growing up too fast. Santa and the magic of Christmas are one of the amazing parts of being a child.
Our house believes:)
Santa's the bomb
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