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Reply to "I never had all these, should I pretend or make up stories?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think explaining that different people have different traditions is a good thing. We said something similar when our kids asked for a pet from Santa ... knowing that their friend had received a dog from Santa. We just said that our deal for our family is that Santa doesn't bring pets. [/quote] I'm Jewish and agree with this strongly. OP, it was really uncomfortable for me as a kid to encounter kids who thought that EVERYONE celebrated Christmas. They tended to assume that my family was bad or something because we didn't. This will happen to your kid too if you make stuff up - they'll encounter someone from an Asian tradition that doesn't do Santa and they'll be confused because "even my mom had Santa in Asia!" Just explain that different people have different traditions, and you didn't have Christmas but their dad did (I assume? otherwise why are you celebrating it now?) so your family now celebrates it.[/quote]
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