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Monday Madness: How to Preserve Your Kid's Faith in Santa...

(ugh)

Here is an article my husband found called How to Preserve Your Kids' Faith in Santa Claus... in other words, here are 5 steps on how to be an example of a deceptively creative liar.

This site also has a "religious" how-to link that says, Exploring your spirituality but feeling a little rusty? Take a world religion refresher course with eHow. ...

Someone e-mailed me a youtube link of Jack Van Impe concocting a prophesy that perhaps since the world's most reliable calendar, the Inca Calendar, only goes to the year 2012, that this may indicate the next coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

(repeat after me... AAAAaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!)

Posted by Lisa on November 27, 2006

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Here's the funny thing...

We have been honest with our kids about who Santa Claus is, from the beginning. The jolly fat man in the red suit coming down the chimney is simply a fun story - like Bambi, or the Three Bears.

They know the truth about it, they know the real reason we have Christmas, and they are not missing out in any kind of childhood fun as a result of it.

Just the other day in the van one of them said "oh I can't wait for Santa to come to our house this year!" One of the others replied "Santa doesn't come to our house" and we all laughed. It sort of came out like we were going to miss Christmas this year for Santa missing our house.

They can pretend about Santa just like they pretended yesterday that they were in "school" learning how to be soldiers. You can't stop a kid from using their imagination, so just tell them the truth and let them have fun with pretend.

Just a few thoughts.

SDG...

Posted by: Carla Rolfe | November 27, 2006 08:02 AM

I agree with you. I love to watch my children's imagination form. Telling your kids the truth about Christmas and its true meaning does not squelch their sweet imaginations, it just causes their imaginations to flourish under truth and love, not a bunch of lies and deception. We have fun with Santa... and we didn't have to lie to our kids and buy into the world's commercialization of what this season is about to enjoy this time.

Thank you for your thoughts,
Lisa

Posted by: lisa4given | November 27, 2006 08:27 AM

We had fun with Santa, too. But our kids knew from the beginning it was just that...fun. My second grader got in trouble at school after some irate parents brought it to the teacher's attention that my girl told someone Santa wasn't real. The horror! By the way, Jack Van Wimpy and Santa in one post, nice.

Posted by: Scott (the original) | November 28, 2006 09:35 AM

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