You actually believe Santa is a real thing. It is not my purpose at this moment to disabuse you of this notion. However, at least YOU are consistent.
I am talking to those Freepers who say Santa Claus is a harmless fairy tale/myth, yet they present him to their children as a real person, not a mythological figure.
This is inconsistent.
My intention is to present him to my kids, unashamedly, as a, quote, "real person," unquote, until my wife and I believe that they are to the point to where they need to know what the "real" reality of Santa is, what the tradition is all about ... FYI, we explain to them every Christmas that the reason people exchange gifts is to remember the Gift that God gave to us so long ago ... and why we are, as I said in the original post, entrusting this wonderful and quite real thing to them to carry on.
How is it inconsistent? Is it really a lie, or are my husband and I actually Santa Claus. My kids don't know who Santa Claus really is.