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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As other posters have pointed out -- YOU CANNOT CONTROL OTHER PEOPLE.

Talk about helicopter parenting, get the eff over it. We all figure this out at some point. I had older brothers, so I probably believed in Santa for like 10 minutes before one told me it was BS.

Gimme a break.

It's Christmas season, how about you try and think of someone else instead of focusing on perpetuating some stupid fantasy with your kid? Take her to visit an old folks home, or feed the hungry.

No one's gonna convince her those people don't exist once she sees them with her own eyes.[/quote]

We've been volunteering weekly as a family at a local homeless shelter since she was 4, so we don't need to *try* to think about someone else, we live it year round.  We also live in NE (not the Cap Hill part either) so she certainly doesn't need any convincing about the existence of people less fortunate than her because many people in our neighborhood are needy.  She comes with me on a regular basis to check on several of our elderly neighbors, take them food, read to them, and give them company - she loves them as if they were her own grandparents.  I was simply bummed about the end of this magical time for her but of course I knew it would happen sooner or later. I also realize that this fantasy seems stupid to many people, it just doesn't to DH and myself because it represents something more for us personally.  [/quote]

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