Will you/ Did you lie to your kids about Santa?

**Burke** · 12-31-2011 01:17 AM

I'll probably do the same my parents did, say santa exists and all that, but give them obvious clues that he doesn't.

i.e. on my 7th birthday my parents gave me a VCR/DVD player, and I got a T.V. from santa. I started to wonder, how did my parents know santa was bringing me a T.V.? So i asked, they said in an obviously sarcastic/lying way that santa told them. I didn't buy it, asked them a few more times and they just came out with it. From then on i just started to question everything

Besides, once my kid is old/smart enough to figure that out, they should know not to tell others

**Musicdreamer** · 12-31-2011 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

Also, heavily derived from St. Nicholas (German) who would fill children's boots with goodies when they left them out on the front step.

We live in a very German area and some families still celebrate St. Nicholas Day by putting out their boots!

this is actually a dutch tradition (check my last post here)

**Original Poster** · 12-31-2011 05:53 PM

Nah, does more harm than good.

I'm all for Decorations and even giving them gifts from Santa Claus but when they ask who he is I'll tell them the truth. He's an imaginary person who may or may not have lived that Parents collectively invented to keep their children obedient.

I also intend to tell them, as soon as they ask, that Jesus was an imaginary person who may or may not have lived that the government collectively invented to make people more obedient.

**HeavySleeper** · 12-31-2011 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

I also intend to tell them, as soon as they ask, that Jesus was an imaginary person who may or may not have lived that the government collectively invented to make people more obedient.

That it absolutely absurd! Clearly it was aliens who invented the story to turn us in to a planet of peace-loving pacifists, so that we won't put up a fight when they come here in 2012 to annihilate the human race.

I'm on to them. The sneaky bastards.

**ThePreserver** · 01-01-2012 01:34 AM

Originally Posted by Musicdreamer

this is actually a dutch tradition (check my last post here)

All of the Poles and Germans I know celebrate it, too. Very common (and we have very few people with Dutch ancestry here.) They (Germans and Poles) must have adopted it.

**Musicdreamer** · 01-01-2012 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

All of the Poles and Germans I know celebrate it, too. Very common (and we have very few people with Dutch ancestry here.) They (Germans and Poles) must have adopted it.

funny, i didn't know that,i always tought only duchts people celebrated it!