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[quote=Anonymous]I remember going through a strange period like this early parenthood when my daughter was 2-3ish. It’s like I overnight became hyper critical of all the ridiculous things that my parents did. I got on the “I could never lie to my child about Santa train”. Haha I told myself my parents were wrong for lying to me and my siblings. I also judged the amount of sugar and processed foods they allowed us. I only bought organic and legit believed that everyone else was feeding their kids trash. I questioned the point of family traditions and things such as birthday parties, Easter egg hunts, traveling for thanksgiving, etc. 
I’m still not sure what this period of life was?? but I just remember that I wanted to do everything opposite of my parents. It took a few years but I snapped out of it. We are not religious at all, but I realized that things such as Santa, getting birthday presents, snack foods, etc were literally what made my childhood. I get where people are coming from about not wanting to celebrate Santa, but if Christmas was a significant part of your own childhood, I suggest holding off on making any major decision about canceling it all together. My daughter finally found out the truth about Santa this year and I asked her how she felt about it. She felt happy that she had so many years of that magic Christmas morning and is totally excited to help wrap Christmas presents next year to help continue the magic for her baby brother. As I have aged, I have come to appreciate passed down family traditions and celebrations no matter how ridiculous they seem. [/quote]

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