What to do when someone tells your kid Santa is real

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Anonymous wrote:It's not nice to characterize people as "the worst" "joyless" "superior" "pretentious" etc based on their personal beliefs. Santa will not be good to you!! Lol.

Also, it shows lack of imagination - that you can't conceive of nice people who are different from you

You seem unkind. Somehow relishing causing people pain over something that brings them joy.

I hope that no matter what you believe, you find more happiness in 2019 than you did this year.

What?? You're mad I said Santa won't be good to you? Or was it the unimaginative part?

I'm not mad. I'm just sad someone feels the need to cut others' holiday happiness down to find joy themselves.

Genuinely, I hope you have a better next year

Geez Louise, how am I cutting your happiness by expressing a different opinion than yours on a forum? I had a lovely year.

I just don't understand wanting to convince someone that something that brings them and their family joy is bad. There has been bad behavior like that on both sides in this thread.

I would hope that the vast majority of people believe in celebrating or not celebrating according to their beliefs and trying not to ruin other people's celebrations in the process. I think that gets lost in an anonymous forum.

NOT trying to convince you. My original post was about others castigating people who believe differently from them. "The worst" etc. I am fine with you believing differently from me.

I think very few people are castigating others here for believing something different then they do. The core issue is a casual disregard of no Santa posters on this issue. Like a pro Santa poster has no reason to be sad/ concerned/ worried that another child could ruin this tradition for their child while at the same time talking about how you don't care if your child does just that.

I would be very upset with my child if they walked up to a praying man and told him God was not real. I personally believe that and my children will come to know that but I will tell them to be respectful of others beliefs. To take no pleasure in taking from someone what brings them joy. Of course accidents happen but it would be a bad thing to do something like that. I'm surprised that's so controversial of an idea when it comes to Santa.

I don't think it's a controversial idea. But tell that to the folks who go on missionary trips, or the people who think colonialism was justified because it was saving the natives by bringing them superior morality. This whole world is built on people going around and telling other people, my beliefs are true and yours are false. When in most cases, no one knows. In the case of Santa, actually, there is consensus that he isn't real (at least I hope) so it's funny that of all things you pick on that as the most problematic. Find something else to get fired up about.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not nice to characterize people as "the worst" "joyless" "superior" "pretentious" etc based on their personal beliefs. Santa will not be good to you!! Lol.

Also, it shows lack of imagination - that you can't conceive of nice people who are different from you

You seem unkind. Somehow relishing causing people pain over something that brings them joy.

I hope that no matter what you believe, you find more happiness in 2019 than you did this year.

What?? You're mad I said Santa won't be good to you? Or was it the unimaginative part?

I'm not mad. I'm just sad someone feels the need to cut others' holiday happiness down to find joy themselves.

Genuinely, I hope you have a better next year

Geez Louise, how am I cutting your happiness by expressing a different opinion than yours on a forum? I had a lovely year.

I just don't understand wanting to convince someone that something that brings them and their family joy is bad. There has been bad behavior like that on both sides in this thread.

I would hope that the vast majority of people believe in celebrating or not celebrating according to their beliefs and trying not to ruin other people's celebrations in the process. I think that gets lost in an anonymous forum.

NOT trying to convince you. My original post was about others castigating people who believe differently from them. "The worst" etc. I am fine with you believing differently from me.

I think very few people are castigating others here for believing something different then they do. The core issue is a casual disregard of no Santa posters on this issue. Like a pro Santa poster has no reason to be sad/ concerned/ worried that another child could ruin this tradition for their child while at the same time talking about how you don't care if your child does just that.

I would be very upset with my child if they walked up to a praying man and told him God was not real. I personally believe that and my children will come to know that but I will tell them to be respectful of others beliefs. To take no pleasure in taking from someone what brings them joy. Of course accidents happen but it would be a bad thing to do something like that. I'm surprised that's so controversial of an idea when it comes to Santa.

I don't think it's a controversial idea. But tell that to the folks who go on missionary trips, or the people who think colonialism was justified because it was saving the natives by bringing them superior morality. This whole world is built on people going around and telling other people, my beliefs are true and yours are false. When in most cases, no one knows. In the case of Santa, actually, there is consensus that he isn't real (at least I hope) so it's funny that of all things you pick on that as the most problematic. Find something else to get fired up about.

Oh come on now. Please quote the poster that said revealing Santa is worse than proselytizing or colonialism????