Posted on 09/27/2023 4:47:00 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
I adopted a daughter. Advice we got was never lie to her. About anything. I told her that there was no Santa, no Easter Bunny, etc.
Rationale was that someday she’d ask me pointed questions about her origins and she’d need a truthful place to ask those questions.
So I can think of at least one reason, since she’s 23 now and I’m the only person in her life that she absolutely trusts.
Oh...now see...i’d have told her that I caught him doing something and of course as soon as he sees someone he freezes up again....lol
I once put a single piece of coal (a bbq briquette) in each of my kid’s stocking, nicely wrapped up. My oldest very quickly and quietly disposed of it trying not to let her mother and I see. I had previously explained that each lump of coal was a present that she could have gotten had she been a little better behaved. Didn’t phase her in the least, but she didn’t want us to know ... it was adorable at the time.
The mother in law is probably a commie that believes all gifts come from the state.
Either that or a modern leftist schoolteacher who, when selecting fictional children’s books to read to class, prefers anti-classics like Peter Rottentail.
We have a rule in our house as the kids aged and didn’t believe in Santa. Never ever tell Mom. Mom would be heartbroken,
“someday she’d ask me pointed questions about her origins”
So I guess the stork was a no-no, too?
“There is absolutely no excuse for telling a child about Santa Claus. None. Not one. Let them believe for as long as possible, I say.”
No, it only cripples their ability to have faith, so it can’t be all that bad. Their is nothing better than taking a child with wide-eyed innocence and lying to it. Deception is great???
My brother and I kept it from our parents that we knew. Dad finally realized it when he hung jingle bells outside, with a string running back to his bed, and every time he rang them my brother and I would try (not very well) to hold in laughter. Finally, when we busted out laughing, he asked what we were laughing about and we told him we knew.
Our youngest brother wasn't old enough yet to understand Christmas, so Mom and Dad were able to keep it alive for him, so they weren't all that crushed.
That’s it
I always make sure i send business emails to the powers that be in my company on Juneteef- a “holiday” which they love and recognize more than July 4
If she’s religious, she’s a Jehovah’s Witness.
My $.02...Extreme religion generally drives people to ruin childhood fantasy like this. I speak from experience. We couldn’t even have a Christmas tree because my fundamentalist baptist father believed it was satanic. He always managed to screw up Christmas just a little bit for everyone. Later on in life he decided that the world was flat because of a few verses in the Bible that “proved it”. “The four corners of the earth” and “The seven pillars of the earth” and some passage in Psalms. Had Dad been born in the 14th century, I’m certain that he would have been the guy leading the town-folk with torches to burn a witch and would have been the one the light the fire.
A parent lies by telling their child about a mythical figure that allegedly exists in real life.
Some one at a point in time reveals to the child that Santa isn’t real.
Parent gets angry for the lie being revealed.
Who’s the real problem here?
Good for her and good for you to let her keep believing!!
The problem? Telling a 4YO, obviously out of spite, something she believes in as a child, as does the vast majority of kids in the developed world, isn’t real.
Santa Claus is not truth. Elf on the shelf is not truth. No matter how you spin it and how much you try and justify it you're lying to a child and setting them up for distrust.
In addition if you claim to be a Christian and you're engaging in perpetuating and strengthening non-Christian (pagan) cult practices and beliefs then you're working against Christ. You are in fact anti-Christ.
So not only are you lying to your children but you're also going against the God revealed in the bible.
Around Christmastime, the kallikantzaroi come out to play! And feed.
How about the tooth fairy?
Should we tell children lies getting them to believe that these mythical figures that don’t exist in real life?
Is it ethical to do so?
With our kids, from their first Christmas, we told them that there was no such thing as Santa.
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