If you are a non religious household, how do you handle religious holidays or Santa, etc?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Joyless poster marches on, grits teeth, teaches kids to ruin childhood magic for other children, as well. My sister and her husband are atheists but Christmas is a fun holiday for them, and their child. She was extremely upset a child in his class played Santa spoiler a few years ago.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with celebrating. We need to do it more. It’s just foolish to add falsehoods like santa or talking rabbits or religion to it. It’s the 21st Century not the Middle Ages. She was upset her child learned a fairytale was a fairytale? That makes no sense. You don’t need to make up bs to celebrate.

That decision is the decision you made for you and your family. I know it’s shocking, but the entire world doesn’t go by your decisions. Some people (I know, it’s just unbelievable) like to make their own traditions with their own families.

[Anonymous]

We are atheists and we ride or die for Santa. It's not that serious for us. One kid has seemed skeptical from the beginning. Just their personality. But we still have a few Santa years left and we roll with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are atheists and we ride or die for Santa. It's not that serious for us. One kid has seemed skeptical from the beginning. Just their personality. But we still have a few Santa years left and we roll with it.

Same. I was raised in an atheist household. I'm all about Santa. My kids LOVE it and all the magic. Also, we're all about the Easter bunny and the other fun holiday traditions. IMO, don't overthink it. Just have fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are atheists and we ride or die for Santa. It's not that serious for us. One kid has seemed skeptical from the beginning. Just their personality. But we still have a few Santa years left and we roll with it.

Same. I was raised in an atheist household. I'm all about Santa. My kids LOVE it and all the magic. Also, we're all about the Easter bunny and the other fun holiday traditions. IMO, don't overthink it. Just have fun.

+2. Children are only little for so long, a little magic is fun for everyone. It is fun. If my kid asks me directly or something when they are beginning to doubt I'm not going to go to extremes to lie to them or anything, but I'm also not going to rob them of a little bit of wonder.

And I'm also an athiest FWIW

[Anonymous]

Atheists but we celebrate Santa and the Easter Bunny. They grow up all too soon and the jig is up. We still have one more who believes but all the older siblings are pretending- we can tell...

We just tell them that some people believe in a person/entity who made the universe but we don't know/weren't there and don't judge them.

[Anonymous]

When I think about people who 'don't want to lie to their kids about Santa' I think about Justin Bieber- who's mum felt the same way.

"This was her logic: She thought if I grew up knowing about Santa then finding out he wasn't real, that it would be like she was lying to me. And then when she told me about God, I maybe wouldn't believe her" ... he’s happy his mom was “straight-up and honest with me all the time.” He continued: “I didn’t tell my friends or ruin it for anyone — I was a good kid!”

Be like Bieber- if your parents have to be dream destroyers and hope smashers- just don't ruin it for others.