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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BTW..Easter/Passover is much more complicated to explain to a young child.[/quote]

I actually find that Passover and Easter blend very well together. For one the Last Supper was a Passover Seder. We are Jewish and have celebrated Seder with very enthusiastic and observant Catholic guests.

The December worry I have is making sure my kids don't spoil Santa for other kids without my kids feeling left out. I dont want to tell my kids that Santa isnt real because they will say things to their friends but of ourse if they think Santa might be real theywill feel left out.  We don't give very generous gifts for Hanukkah since the whole reason for the holiday is to celebrate Jews defeating forced conversion and the reason Jews give gifts is to be more like Christmas. But we can't let our kids feel that left out.[/quote]

Yup, I believed in santa till my Jewish friend in second grade scoffed at me and told me santa wasn't real.....her dad tried to get her to stop midway thru the convo but no luck![/quote]

Hilarious the tricks adults play on kids, but everyone gets over it in the end.  At some level, you know some of these wild stories that defy nature can't be true, but as long as people are going along with it and there's a reward involved, some people will continue to believe. That Jewish kid would have believed in Santa if her parents had encouraged it, but you both would have given him up by around age 7 anyhow and if you hadn't, your parents would have actively discouraged it. After a while, that kind of belief isn't amusing anymore -- it's immature and parents would want to put a stop to it.   Never heard of a kid believing in Santa past the age of seven, anyhow.[/quote]

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