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But not annoying for anyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas to go to a mall with their child and have to tell them, "Sshhh...we will talk about it later" or explain to them why they are only being surrounded by cultural symbols that have nothing to do with their own traditions but we can't discuss that because we might offend those who already have all of the power in the situation.  Yeah that's not annoying at all.[/quote]

Silly again.  Of course say loud and proud that your family doesn't celebrate Christmas.  You don't have to say Santa isn't real in front of other kids in order to do that.  But you know that.  You're just being obtuse. [/quote]

In my experience, when an adult asks a child "Are you looking forward to Santa?" or "What's Santa going to bring you?", and the child doesn't celebrate Christmas, there is really no way for the child to respond without the response sounding like a rebuke. And a rebuke is inappropriate, because it's from a child to an adult, and because the adult meant well. So, how do you think that the child should respond?[/quote]

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