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I think this is the whole point. As parents, we plan all year to provide as many special gifts and memories as we can for our children. And when their eyes light up and they smile.....we feel just a little magical.
Kids whose parents don't play along with the Santa Claus thing are the miserable louts I remember on the playground, trying to make all the other happy kids miserable just like them.
Santa, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy, etc. are all part of the folklore of our society. Every society has their fictitious characters. Children need fantasy and magic until they grow out of that phase of magical thinking, is part of normal development of a child. Those who would deny this to children, show their ignorance and their own stunted emotional growth. Also, just a nice little dig at the Christian holiday, isn't it.
For those that do teach about SC, has your child ever asked why so many charities collect new,
wrapped toys to donate? My step-mother never told my brother about SC because she said "sooner or later children will wonder why SC never comes to visit the poor kids."
At 25, I still think of all my wonderful childhood memories of Christmas, Santa & knowing that it is the time we celebrate the birth of Jesus.
To victorianpunk: I am sorry that Christmas is such a hated time of year for you. It is clear to a few of us why you feel so strongly about this issue & I'm sorry that this wonderful holiday was destoyed for you so young, I would probably be very unhappy with my mom, as well, I don't blame you.
But to be so spiteful to everyone else who is honestly just making a little innocent magic for their children is a bit "over the line." We are not abusing our children nor is this the ONLY magic we create for our children.
During the spring & summer I collect nature items with my son & we make windchimes. This is something that is very enchanting for both of us, knowing that with the help of our beautiful world, we can create such pretty things.
Both my husband & I take our son to work with us to show him what we do at work & how we help other people. I let my son talk with my customers & he just loves doing this. I can tell that when he sees how we interact & help others, it is magical for him.
Please don't let some of your happiness be stripped away by your experiences. Learn from what you have been through.
Why are you so bitter about santa ? I told my children when they asked me about him, that if you want to believe you can and if you don't its ok ,,,,kids are only kids for a short time, why can't they have a few happy childhood memories. remember, that special gift we asked santa for and we got it ? we were the happiest kids in the world...my kids have kids of thier own now, and they tell them the same as I told them at the same age, believing in santa never harmed them, or any child I ever knew and I never was accused of lying of to them. " merry christmas " to all.
So, if you were at a mall or something and someone screamed at her child "you're worthless and a horrable excuse for human life! I wish I never had you! You will never be anything and are a waste of life!..."etc, would you care what that other person told their kid?
Lying to your kids about Santa is a form of child abuse as far as I'm concerned.
Are you for real? Providing your child with the magic of Santa is ABUSE? Polar Express and all its wonder is abusive? It is as if I have beaten my child all because I provided them with a sense of wonder? A month of joy and magic? Providing them with gifts and stories of a kind jolly old soul who wants all children to be happy.... and brings them gifts and good tidings.... Filling their heads with happy thoughts.... is ABUSIVE?
I think destroying a childs sense of wonder, crushing their IMAGINATION.... making them GROW UP sooner than they need to.... now THAT is abusive. Why not let them believe in something big and magical? Only an abusive bully would crush a child's dream of Santa.....
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