The santa clause myth is lib shit, and I have no plans to teach my kid that santa clause is real. I don't want my kid obsessing over the amount of shit at the bottom of that tree on 12/25, or trying to manipulate their behavior a few days/weeks beforehand to increase said amount of shit.

But, I'm not really sure how to approach this. The kid is only 2, so nothing to worry about for a few more years. Should I just be direct? There is no Santa, holidays are about family?

Anybody here already cross that bridge?

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    check out this good comment in the last thread about this:

    https://hexbear.net/post/31542/comment/242044

    My parents told me that Santa was a fun pretend guy based on a real guy who lived a long time ago and gave presents to people. So it was OK to sing silly songs and pretend, but none of it was real. But they also made it clear that some families like to pretend harder than we do and it was NOT OK to tell the kids at school that Santa wasn’t real. I think that’s the best way to handle it–I still enjoyed Christmas as much as any kid, but I didn’t have that moment of realizing that my parents had been lying to me. And the way they framed it didn’t really make me see other parents as lying to their kids either, just that they were playing a game of pretend together in a different way than my family did.

      • garbology [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I mean it's good advice, worth repeating. :gold-anarchist:

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I didn't name drop you because it would've been obnoxious, we all recognized who it was from the quality

        • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Just went to clear my replies and saw this again, and realized that my first reply sounds weird. Anyway, I just wanted to clarify that I was having a "hahaha oh no somebody remembered something I said here oh no hahahaha" moment. Anyway, I'm blushing furiously that one of my dumb comments was remembered, but I'm also flattered, so thank you.