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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is "Max." Sorry lady, but my child will shout it to the world and there is nothing you can do about it. [/quote]

My kids are older but still curious why you feel this way.  You don't think it is mean to take away someone's fun, joy, excitement?  I don't mind at all that you don't believe.  We have very good frineds who don't believe in santa.  It just seems a common courtesy, respectful, and neighborly to let the kids who believe, believe.  When our last one discovered the truth, i just said there might be kids who still believe so this is not something you need to share.  He was okay with that.  We never said he had to lie.  Again, i am not sure why the non-santa believers can't just have their views and let the santa believers have their views.  Why should one 5 year old make another 5 yr old cry - why does he/ she get to crush someone eles's spirit of joy.  The world is tough enough as we see everyday.  I wish everyone joy wherever they can find it -- without hurting someone else.[/quote]

I think your mistaking an adult's understanding of "crushing someone else's joy" with a child's sense of truth, which is about as black and white and literal as it gets. If I call my 3-year-old's underwear "pants" she gets all up in arms and corrects me ("They aren't pants! They are underwear!") Similarly, a child is likely to miss the nuance the Santa/innocense thing and focus on what he or she sees as the truth of the matter. ("He's not real!") [/quote]

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