If you don’t celebrate Christmas...

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Anonymous wrote:Please instruct your kid to stop telling other kids there’s no such thing as Santa. Super annoying and super disrespectful.

Please stop lying to your children. Super annoying and disrespectful

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Not my job to tiptoe around you so you can continue to lie to your kid.

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I am Christian. ... I would not tolerate my child telling a Jewish person that Hanukkah is a sham because there is no way oil would have lasted that long or that Passover is a crock because there is no “Angel of death” that kills only Egyptian babies.

What about the fact that the Exodus story and Maccabees are part of the Hebrew Bible, which are (I think?) canonical for Christians? Or, as a Christian, do you not teach your child anything about the Hebrew Bible?

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Anonymous wrote:I really do not get why so many PPs are defending their kids being cruel by telling others there is no Santa. Do you encourage them to go around saying there is no tooth fairy too just to be mean?

It is not that hard to at least TRY to tell your kids not to say something to others. Maybe they obey and maybe they do not but to say you see no reason to even try is mind boggling.

I do not think that is what people are saying.

Of course, no one wants a child to be upset.

Kids do dum things, some kids are mean.

The question is why is this someone else's problem if the original poster lies to her kids? Isn't she really the one at fault?

Let's go even further. Santa in the mall is a stranger. My guess is she is putting her kid in the lap of a male they do not know, and is lying to them that they are Santa??? Yet tells her kids to stay away from strangers?

I know this post will not be popular, but the original poster came out swinging blaming others for her lie. It's not anyone else's responsibility to continue a lie. Again no one encourages their kids to tell other kids there is not a Santa.

This problem is as old as time. Siblings tell siblings there is no Santa. Why in the world is she posting blaming others.

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I am not a big fan of the Santa story. It puts a lot of pressure on lower SES families to overspend in order to get their kids the things on the Santa list. It is very biased towards higher SES. The whole watching you 24/7 to know if you are bad or good and then giving presents based on this assessment doesn't sit well with me. Makes poorer kids and marginalized kids look 'bad' compared to their richer more privileged 'good' peers.

I don't care if families do it, we don't. My kids know there is no such thing and they know that some families tell their kids there is a Santa or an Easter Bunny or a tooth fairy etc. They know better than to go up to someone and say there is no Santa but they might be overheard in conversation or asked directly and they wouldn't lie. For example, when one of my mine was about 4, he recognized the Santa as his friend's dad and excitedly commented on how that was his friend's dad in the Santa costume. A lady with a kid sitting near us got really angry at him. I completely supported him in that. She can tell her kids whatever she wants but he was just being an excited innocent 4 year old and didn't do anything wrong.

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I had relatives who were poor do they told their kids the secret of Santa do they wouldn't feel bad that Santa brought some kids expensive electronics and gaming systems and other kids thrift store toys

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Growing up Jewish my parents didn't tell me the truth about Santa so I believed in him despite not having any skin in the game (I figured it out along with the tooth fairy when I was 9).

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A lot of Christians who celebrate Christmas also don't believe in Santa or tell their kids to.

Eventually, they will find out anyhow OP, unless the kids are not very bright.

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Anonymous wrote:Please instruct your kid to stop telling other kids there’s no such thing as Santa. Super annoying and super disrespectful.

And how do you propose parents will achieve that? Do you know how kids operate?

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Anonymous wrote:Our 4 year old knows Santa is pretend and still looks forward to getting presents from Santa (via mom and dad) and to Christmas. He knows some kids don't know that Santa is pretend and will play along with the story but I can't guarantee where kids' conversations will go. *shrug*

What is the big deal?

The big deal is that parents like OP promote Santa religiously. It like a secular religion.

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It's not the burden of other little kids to help support your lie, OP. You are a bully putting that on the shoulders of non-Christmas celebrating kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell your jerky kids not to go up to kids and say Santa isn’t real. Problem solved.

Tell your disillusioned brats not to go around proselytizing about imaginary characters. Problem solved.

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Anonymous wrote:I really do not get why so many PPs are defending their kids being cruel by telling others there is no Santa. Do you encourage them to go around saying there is no tooth fairy too just to be mean?

It is not that hard to at least TRY to tell your kids not to say something to others. Maybe they obey and maybe they do not but to say you see no reason to even try is mind boggling.

+1,000,000. This is really the bottom line.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really do not get why so many PPs are defending their kids being cruel by telling others there is no Santa. Do you encourage them to go around saying there is no tooth fairy too just to be mean?

It is not that hard to at least TRY to tell your kids not to say something to others. Maybe they obey and maybe they do not but to say you see no reason to even try is mind boggling.

+1,000,000. This is really the bottom line.

Do you tell your kid that other kids might not believe in Santa?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell your jerky kids not to go up to kids and say Santa isn’t real. Problem solved.

Tell your disillusioned brats not to go around proselytizing about imaginary characters. Problem solved.

Is it okay if they go around proselytizing about religious figures?