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?

    • ElChango [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I'm an angry cynical fuck, and I'm not sure how well a child is being prepared for the world in which we live if they believe the world is kind and just. I'm not saying I want to poison my kid with my own cynicism, but I want to temper their expectations.

      I dunno man. Maybe it's just coming from being a millennial and having smoke blown up my ass for the first 20 years of my life that I'm so angry about all of what I was told and promised as a kid/young adult was total bullshit. I don't want my kid to have the same revelation that everything they were told and encouraged to believe in was a complete lie.

        • ElChango [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          the fact that you even think about this stuff means you’re doing alright in my book

          Thanks for the encouraging words.