Jumping Into The Santa Lie With Both Feet As A Part Of Our New Christmas Traditions- Hot Topic Tuesday
This week Enyo, a fellow blogger at Motherhood Looms asked the question: “Is Santa Clause promoting Christmas imagination and magic or is it lying to your kids” as her Hot Topic Tuesday. For me this is an interesting question because I have never believed in Santa, not even for a moment, but I desperately want Bean to Believe with her whole heart.
Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. I love everything from the Christmas Carols, to the way strangers smile when you wish them a merry Christmas to spending time with family to the cookies and cookie baking and cookie exchanges and of course the presents. I love shopping for Christmas presents and this year I am making tons of presents and so I feel like a little Christmas elf.
I love Christmas.
I want the Bean to love Christmas and I want her to have the Santa experience. Santa will be a part of our Christmas traditions. I want to stay up late on Christmas eve, putting out the presents. I want to watch her come running down the stairs with stars in her eyes to see what Santa has left her. I want to help her mail her letter to the North Pole and I want to hold Santa and the threat of a lump of coal over her head when faced with winter meltdowns.
Is it lying? Well I suppose it depends on how you define lying, I mean certainly it is a bit dishonest, certainly there is a withholding of the truth and certainly there will be a spinning of tales that I know to be untrue.
Fine. Call it what you may, but Santa will still be a part of our Christmas holiday. I want her to experience the magic of Christmas that you can only buy into when you are young. I want her to have these beautifully naive beliefs before she discovers that the world can be a hard place. I want her to surrounded by a protective magical innocence for as long as possible.
When she begins to suspect, we will go from there. When she is old enough to ask the questions, I will figure out how to answer them. However, from this year on we will welcome Santa with a plate of cookies and a glass of milk each Christmas eve. They will be chocolate chip because that is my favorite and my hubby and I will eat them as our little Bean dreams of reindeer footsteps tappity tapping across the roof.
What Are Your thoughts? Is It a Lie or a part of the magic? Be sure to check out the Parenting Patch to see what they think.
I love Christmas.
I want the Bean to love Christmas and I want her to have the Santa experience. Santa will be a part of our Christmas traditions. I want to stay up late on Christmas eve, putting out the presents. I want to watch her come running down the stairs with stars in her eyes to see what Santa has left her. I want to help her mail her letter to the North Pole and I want to hold Santa and the threat of a lump of coal over her head when faced with winter meltdowns.
Is it lying? Well I suppose it depends on how you define lying, I mean certainly it is a bit dishonest, certainly there is a withholding of the truth and certainly there will be a spinning of tales that I know to be untrue.
Fine. Call it what you may, but Santa will still be a part of our Christmas holiday. I want her to experience the magic of Christmas that you can only buy into when you are young. I want her to have these beautifully naive beliefs before she discovers that the world can be a hard place. I want her to surrounded by a protective magical innocence for as long as possible.
When she begins to suspect, we will go from there. When she is old enough to ask the questions, I will figure out how to answer them. However, from this year on we will welcome Santa with a plate of cookies and a glass of milk each Christmas eve. They will be chocolate chip because that is my favorite and my hubby and I will eat them as our little Bean dreams of reindeer footsteps tappity tapping across the roof.
What Are Your thoughts? Is It a Lie or a part of the magic? Be sure to check out the Parenting Patch to see what they think.
It is magical if it feels magical. My daughter never did take to Santa so it was not magical for us, but I would not tell her that there are not any fairies :)
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