TheBanyanTree: Who The Hell is My Secret Santa? (paul)

[Jena Norton]

Theta, this is something I've been mulling over since this topic came up yesterday at our day-late Christmas dinner. I asked my g-niece what Santa brought her son. She launches into the not-lying thing. She said. if he asked, she'd tell him some people believe in Santa and some don't. She'd leave it up to him to decide. When asked about the Tooth Fairy, she said when he loses a tooth, she'll hand him a dollar. He's just 15 months old, so there's time for her to change her mind. And being me, I asked her if that meant she'd NEVER lie to her child. She humphed and her parents laughed.
I also think of kids I knew or taught whose religious beliefs didn't let them celebrate holidays or birthdays. They always seemed sad they couldn't join in. And if as adults, they left this sect, they always said they loved celebrating so much!
All childhood make-believe has my vote!
Jena Norton 

    On Sunday, December 26, 2021, 01:24:59 PM CST, Theta Brentnall via TheBanyanTree <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com> wrote:  
 
 One of our older daughter's friends decided she would not lie to her 
children about Santa.  Every time they walked by a Santa in a store or 
anyone asked the kids what they hoped Santa would bring, this friend, 
with an air of exalted virtue, would say that Santa is not real.  When 
Indy was a baby, our daughter threatened the friend with bodily harm if 
she said that in Indy's hearing and she said they would all be banned 
from the house during the Christmas season if her kids said anything to 
Indy.  Some years later, Maggie overheard her friend scolding one of her 
kids about something he'd said to someone that was honest but very 
hurtful. He responded that as long as they were talking about hurtful 
things, why had she refused to let them believe in Santa?  He had 
observed that when the kids who believed in Santa when they were young 
had more fun during the season anticipating Santa, and when his friends 
got older and found out the truth, they still had fun making Santa real 
for younger kids.  He told her that when he had kids, he was going to 
make Santa real for them and she better not mess it up.

So there's a vote for the Santa spirit.


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