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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny here- My bosses won't let the kids go see Santa, as in they've never ever 'met' Santa. It really upsets them and it just seems dumb to be hipsters about holidays just to be cool. It's cruel. But I'm not paid for my opinions so I just shut up and do my job with a smile. The kids are allowed to trick or treat but they can only keep one piece of candy. [/quote]

This bit of parenting bothers me less than about any parenting choice I've ever heard of. It's "cruel" to not take your kids to the mall and seat them on the knee of a man wearing a bunch of fake facial hair?

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Because they suffer from neurotic anxiety, making a boogey man out of Mall Santa actually places far more emphasis on his degree of importance than is warranted and by doing this, they make mall santa far more of an issue in their kid's lives than he would otherwise be.

But then all neurotic people do stuff like this--they turn the minor and trivial and innoccuous into something ominous and to be feared and avoided.  So yeah that's a rather cruel way to bring up one's children--that being neurotic is an appropriate reaction to something like a mall santa.

Sort of like if the parents taught their kids that little spiders were so scary that they should always panic and run away from them rather than ever, even a single time, try to see what it is all about.

PP you sound like you might have asperger's if all you think it's about is not taking them to see a man with a fake beard.  You're missing the big picture which is that the parents described are extremely neurotic and raising their kids to be the same way.  Same as OP's sister in law who is terrified of halloween candy.[/quote]

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