Truth Or Lie About Santa?, Should parents lie to their kids?

Santa's out there guys. If only as a state of mind.

I am famous for that. I have had to go up and "find" the money in the morning for the kids. At one point, my son came down in the morning and told me that I had forgotten to put the money under his pillow. They figure it out on their own.

Guilty, and I didn't always catch myself... Note to self: warn sons not to try this when THEY have kids...

Have you ever given a gift to a child who you knew would have nothing and signed it Santa? Or gave a coat to some one who is freezing in the winter, Helped serve food in a shelter, Helped the elderly get food, helped your community in anyway?
I have. We are all Santa in one form or another. Every time you give food to a homeless shelter your being Santa. Santa is the spirit of giving to those who are less fortunate then you are. It's not necessarily a specific person and yes, I have taught my children that. Being Santa isn't only at Christmas it's all year long. So you can't say that there is no Santa, YOU & I are Santa. every time you share what you have with those that don't have anything you are being Santa.
In Perfect Love and Perfect Trust,
Blessed Be,
Angel

Just as I said. Santa is the spirit of Christmas in all of us.

Agreed Angel!!!

PEACE!

I say let the kids live their fantasy. They will figure it by themselves out sooner or later. I did when I was 8 or 9.

I agree with you maryellen. I never told my children there was a Santa and they don't appear to be too warped. All 3 are married now and they have chosen to tell their children about Santa. Grandma just shakes her head!

maggiemahone1

Having older siblings, I don't remember believing in Santa in the conventional sense. I remember pretending I did so as to not disappoint my family.

But on the other hand, I kept the spirit if Santa in my heart always.

For many a year I have gone outside at exactly midnight and you can call me a nut but I hear sleigh bells. Actually hear the far off jingling of those magic bells. And for that brief moment the world is wonderful and magical. Burdens disappear and I am a child again.

I will never forget the Christmas six years ago when many circumstances converged to create one of the most difficult times of my life. I stood in the snow, needing so badly to hear those bells. But for the first time, they were not there.

If that is what it is like to be an adult, I will stay a child forever.

Just joking but I had your permission LOL

Ah, we have a literalist in our midst!

Let me guess, they bring you in for the comic relief, right?

That's what lack of sleep with do LOL

Santa's not real? I'm 18 now...does that mean I'm a grown up! Well that bites big time...
Annabelle

I can see that this particular chat is not as active as others may be. But I just had a chat with my sister on this very topic. And seein as Christmas is not all that far off, I wanted to I guess, restart this chat.

As children I know that pretty much every child sees santa as a jolly man who comes to your home christmas eve. You leave him a snack with a drink. Sometimes even Rudolph gets a snack. (was never sure how happy the other reindeer were with this. ) But after all was said and done, he left you gifts. Depending of course on how good you had been all year.

In my house and alot of other homes, this was a 'threat'. "If you don't clean your room santa won't leave you anything but a lump of coal."

I never got coal, and my room was never clean.

As for my children, in the beginning it was the man with the gifts. But over the last few years I have changed, ever so slightly, who santa is and what he does. We talk about how santa is in our hearts, he is the respect and kindness at Christmas. He is the caring you show others. (and this is all year, not just thelast minute rush on being good) When the boys were born, I started to give a little more. Volunteering and what have you. But I make a point of letting the boys help and make decisions when it comes to sharing at christmas. They pick one card each off the christmas tree in town. It only has the gender and the age of a less fortunate child. We head off to the mall and they help choose presents. In the end, they sign the cards, 'from santa'. I must admit it is hard on our budget. I am a single mother on partial disability. But with the family I have, we do all right. We want for nothing. We have a home and food. Alot of others don't. And that is what I think kids should know. Believing is Santa is great. There's a little santa in all of us.

Sorry for the long message. I will shut-up now.
Take care.

No need to shut up. I think more of us (Myself included) need to be more active like you are. I think if more of us were like this maybe it might bring us all a little closer to world peace.

ON now I will shut up before I get Santa involved in politics LOL. (I lead the politics forum thats why last statement so it makes more sense to you.)