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Will you raise (or have you raised) your kids to believe in Santa?

Will you raise (or have you raised) your kids to believe in Santa?

  • Yes, when I have kids I'll raise them to believe in Santa

    Votes: 30 52.6%

  • No, when I have kids I'll tell them the truth

    Votes: 12 21.1%

  • Yes, my kids already believe in Santa

    Votes: 3 5.3%

  • No, my kids don't believe in Santa

    Votes: 2 3.5%

  • I have allowed my kids to believe in Santa, but am unsure if I would again

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • I'm not sure which way I'll go yet

    Votes: 9 15.8%
  • Total voters
    57
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I dont see any harm in allowing your kids to believe in santa, infact I think its wonderful and children's minds are already filled with magic and exciting fantasies they create.

Most kids realise eventually that santa doesnt exist, and it doesnt do any real harm for the main part, so why not let them have the fun..

IMO santa doesnt stand for anything wrong, He stands for not being able to sleep on xmas eve, excitiment when you see the xmas tree, the gut feeling you get in your stomach when upwrap your gifts and the smiles of childrens faces. :)
 
^ exactly!

I strongly believe in them points aswell, especially the not being able to sleep on christmas eve part :)

It brought some much fun to me when I was younger knowing santa was coming, when I eventually worked out it wasn't real I was just as happy anyway, knowing my parents went out of their way to do something so nice....
 
raverchik said:
I dont see any harm in allowing your kids to believe in santa, infact I think its wonderful and children's minds are already filled with magic and exciting fantasies they create.

Most kids realise eventually that santa doesnt exist, and it doesnt do any real harm for the main part, so why not let them have the fun..

IMO santa doesnt stand for anything wrong, He stands for not being able to sleep on xmas eve, excitiment when you see the xmas tree, the gut feeling you get in your stomach when upwrap your gifts and the smiles of childrens faces. :)
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Totally! - I want my children to have a little imagination and magic in there life! I think some of the most exciting times at Christmas was waiting and believing in Santa! :D

shals!
 
My two younger sisters and I were raised to believe in Santa, and to be quite honest, when I was a kid I would have thought that other kids who didn't were freaks ;)

After I learned to read and recognise my Dads handwriting, I kinda worked it out (what kind of fool did he think I was?!) and was swiftly told to keep my mouth shut around my sisters. It was great seeing their excitement on Xmas morning, even tho they weren't all that much younger than me.

So of course I'm going to raise my children to believe in Santa. Mainly for their benefit, and kind of for mine too... Watching my children experience Christmas "magic" isn't really something I want to miss out on either!
 
but kids can have magic in their lives without having to believe in santa. Thats one of the points i'm making.
 
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And that's what I'm on about. You want your kids to see real magic, forget Santa or the tooth fairy, show them science, or medicine, or charity work. Show them that you don't have to lie to people to make them happy. Show them that real happiness doesn't come from a hallmark holiday, it comes from helping people everyday when they need it, not just one day of the year when society tells us to.
 
a 10 year old kid doesn't want charity, he wants santa claus and rudolph and presents and christmas trees and surprises and he wants to do santa related things at school and talk about santa with other children.

not talk about how when he grows up he wants to donate blood.
 
Actually I was. But why teach kids to want presents and toys. Why not teach them that working hard and improving the world around them is better then the latest plastic figurine. And when are kids no longer kids? And when kids are no longer in your control, what's to stop them acting irresponsible? When and how do they learn about the real world? How do teach them to act like adults?
 
Relating to some questions earlier in the thread regardinging myths solely meant for children.

I know of one aboriginal dreamtime story - Long ago, back in the dreamtime, when our ancestors lived the all-father created the sun. However he needed to find some signal to prepare the earth for daylight, one day during his wandering he heard the kookaburra(known as the goo-goor-gagga) laughing like a fool. He decided that this was the sound he needed, and thus the goo-goor-gagga became responsible for the beginning of the day. If the goo-goor-gagga for some reason failed to make his noise in the morning then there would be no more daylight. So therefore children where forbidden from mimicing the goo-goor-gagga's laugh, because if one was nearby it might think you where taking the piss and refuse to laugh. no laugh=no sunlight.

that's the only one I can think about off the top of my head
 
^^ I had a book called 'Why the kookaburra alughs at dawn' that had that and other stories in it. As a kid i found it unbelievable.

I was a bit of a sceptic as a child and could never believe any of the bible stories about miracles and stuff like that either - it waqs just too far fetched. If i was to believe it it had to be subtle annd heavily based in reality/believable sciennce etc..!
 
Will i raise my kids to believe in santa?

haven't really given it much thought, but now that i do.... no, i dont think i will.

Why?

basically firstly because i'm not even slight religious and secondly because i'm a firm believer that there are other ways to "keep the magic alive" that don't involve such willful participation in something that has become the exploitive commercialistic tool that it has. art, literature, games, perhaps anyone?

anything that the myth of 'father christmas' may have once given to children has now been totally degraded by the effects of consumerism.

also i'm getting the distinct feeling that it's the parents that feel the lack of magic in their own lives and because of this try to compensate by artificially creating something for their children to enjoy. kids feel the magic already peoples- all these super technologically advanced toys and video games do more in taking away from childrens imaginations than they do in developing them. imo.

hehe, my poor kids, ay? ;)
 
ozbreaker said:
^^ I had a book called 'Why the kookaburra alughs at dawn' that had that and other stories in it. As a kid i found it unbelievable.

I was a bit of a sceptic as a child and could never believe any of the bible stories about miracles and stuff like that either - it waqs just too far fetched. If i was to believe it it had to be subtle annd heavily based in reality/believable sciennce etc..!
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this is an aboriginal book, yeah?

I've got the same book, infact, I still have it placed in my parents cupboard somewhere.....


*edit* just read the previous post, of course it is..... hehe
 
my mum raised me on books etc, but the first thing i did with my first paycheck was buy a playstation...... just because a child has got a playstation or a racing car set doesnt mean they will grow up hating books etc..... i love to read, and i love to play playstation.... they arent mutually exclusive
 
WHAT?! Santa isnt real?! lol

I will definately let my children believe in Santa.
When I was younger, Santa put the excitement in Christmas. When I found out that he wasnt real, I wasnt angry with my parents. I was actually grateful that they let me believe in him. It's not a lie, just a childhood fantasy.
 
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