Does your kid believe in Santa?

i dont think we need to worry about cubbiebum breeding

 

 

why the hell would you want to take away a kids' enjoyment of santa claus? that's just evil.

 

let them believe.

You aren't taking anything away if you didn't give them anything in the first place.

stole the words right out of my mouth

i dont think we need to worry about cubbiebum breeding

 

 

why the hell would you want to take away a kids' enjoyment of santa claus? that's just evil.

 

let them believe.

You aren't taking anything away if you didn't give them anything in the first place.

 

Apparently, you have no idea what a parent feels when they see their kids come down the stairs on christmas day and see the smiles on their faces when they open their presents. Admittedly, neither do I, but I can imagine the feeling. When/If you have kids, you'll know what I'm talking about and you'll be alright with lying to them. Besides, it's not like your kid won't love you anymore when you tell them santa isn't real. I was brought up believing in santa, and I loved it. When they told me he wasn't real, I was like "Oh, that sucks... but do I still get presents?" children accept stuff like that pretty easily.

Once again not Christian so my kids won't be getting presents for a religious holiday not of my religion.

Kids will light up Christmas morning whether they believe you got the presents or Santa did. Do you all not think Jewish kids light up when they get their dradles? They are made of clay you know.

also, the only women who will ever marry guys like you are fat Wiccan chicks, but maybe you're into that

Either that or non-christians you know they do exist.

i dont think we need to worry about cubbiebum breeding

 

 

why the hell would you want to take away a kids' enjoyment of santa claus? that's just evil.

 

let them believe.

You aren't taking anything away if you didn't give them anything in the first place.

 

Apparently, you have no idea what a parent feels when they see their kids come down the stairs on christmas day and see the smiles on their faces when they open their presents. Admittedly, neither do I, but I can imagine the feeling. When/If you have kids, you'll know what I'm talking about and you'll be alright with lying to them. Besides, it's not like your kid won't love you anymore when you tell them santa isn't real. I was brought up believing in santa, and I loved it. When they told me he wasn't real, I was like "Oh, that sucks... but do I still get presents?" children accept stuff like that pretty easily.

 

Once again not Christian so my kids won't be getting presents for a religious holiday not of my religion.

 

Kids will light up Christmas morning whether they believe you got the presents or Santa did. Do you all not think Jewish kids light up when they get their dradles? They are made of clay you know.

 

You know, people do in fact celebrate christmas without being Christian. I'm atheist and so are my parents, but we celebrated christmas every year. Just not as a religious holiday, but as a time to be together as a family. Letting your kids grow up without christmas is cruel. It's by far the most awesome time of year as a kid.

You don't need Christmas to get together with family. I have a very close family and we get together 3 or four times every year even though one brother lives in Milwaukee, one sister in Raleigh, my parents in South Carolina and myself and my other sister are still in Indiana. We talk on email all day long and we sure as heck don't need Christmas or any other holiday to get together.

Thinking raising kids without Christmas is both arrogant and ignorant. Nearly half the kids in the world don't grow up with Christmas because THEY AREN'T CHRISTIAN. I realize some people celebrate it even though they aren't but that doesn't really exist anywhere else other than the U.S. and a few other well advanced countries. It exists because in those countries Christmas has become so commercial its lost most if not all its religious meaning. A large reason people in this country celebrate without being Christian is because of the decades of media and the companies themselves passing it off as the greatest thing ever. The companies like that because it allows them to sell more. Christmas in many ways become like Valentine's Day. A holiday that companies control and make billions off of.

It is not cruel to raise kids without Christmas that just reaks to high heaven with ignorance. You do know most other religions have holidays that include giving presents to kids. I grew up with one were for four days (five on leap years) in February you have a small present left on your bed while you sleep by your parents (not some mystery made up person). I say small because it is said in the holy book the presents shouldn't be the focus. The holiday is supposed to be about appreciating your family and not the presents. Christmas has lost that and lost it a longtime ago.

Excuse me now I'm going to go kill myself because I can't live anymore since I didn't grow up with Christmas. I'll be joining the devil in hell for dinner since no doubt most of you think that must be where I'm going since I don't celebrate Christmas.

I would never deprive my daughter of the joy of Christmas. Something tells me when she gets older that she will be glad I allowed her to be a child full of childish imagination. And hopefully, long after the belief of Santa has passed from her life she will remember the values of the Christmas season: love, hope, joy, and a spirit of giving.

 

Today at church, we stopped by the angel tree. We let my daughter pick out the child that we will buy gifts for this year. She will actively be involved in it.

 

Yesterday we took some toys and money to the toy drive one of the radio stations had. She pulled money from her own piggy bank because she says she wants everyone to have a present a Christmas.

 

Tonight she will write her letter to Santa. She is excited about seeing Santa. How long will she believe? I don't know. But what I do know is I can't see why I'd take that joy from her.

Good I'm glad you don't. Your Christian so I wouldn't expect you not to just as I wouldn't expect a Jewish person to not celebrate Hanukkah. I just take issue with the people who say I'm being cruel by saying I won't celebrate Christmas when I have kids.