How Do You Handle Santa Claus And All Of The Other Holiday Myths In Your House?
Question by MichL: How Do You Handle Santa Claus And All Of The Other Holiday Myths In Your House?
I don’t want to get into a debate but many people are now secularizing themselves away from religion. Many of the holiday characters especially Santa Claus are linked with Christianity and other religions.
I wanted to know if you still raise your kids into believing in The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy or you are not bothering at all with the fairy tale stories. Just curious to see what newer parents are raising their kids to believe.
i was raised on all of the myth fairy tale holiday characters and was quite devastated when I found out they were not real and i was lied to about all of this by my parents.
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Answer by Ny_attitude
Our son believed in Santa, but not the tooth fairy or the easter bunny.
Why?? Well, with the easter bunny, he asked at 3, “mommy, how could a bunny get that big and carry all that stuff???” It wasn’t believable to him so we didn’t push it. I might also note he has Aspergers Syndrome.
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My son knows about all the holiday characters. He believes in them whole-heartedly and I really like that he does. Young children need something like that. The look on his face Christmas morning when he runs to the Christmas Tree to see what Santa brought is priceless. Same thing this year when he told me what a mess the Easter Bunny made with his carrots and celery.
My parents let me believe in everything. They never came out and told me these people didn’t exist. I eventually got older and lost the excitement in it all. One year I told them I was all grown up and didn’t believe anymore. That was the end of it. No tears. Hopefully the same thing will happen with my son.
Religious or not…it’s still fun to believe.
I was raised on all those magical stories, i loved it.
See, my kids don’t ever get to see my in-laws, they’re petty ways and them all disowning one another has made me see that my kids may miss out on all that magic that the family can bring with those stories. My entire family all live in England. They send packages for the girls all the time, but it’s just not the same as having the whole family all around the tree, laughing and joking and opening presents all at once.
I make a huge deal of birthdays and make a huge point of every birthday always buying a cake. I bought my oldest who’s 3 a tooth fairy jar. It is absaloutly adorable and i can’t wait till she loses that first tooth so we can put it in the jar and i’ll tell her the tooth fairy will give her a couple dollars (50 cents or a dollar just doesn’t buy anything lol)
Santa Claus is no fun without my family being around, the magic of christmas just isn’t quite there since it’s just me, my husband and our 3 girls. My step grandad would stand on the roof with bells and we’d be told santa was here quick get to bed and that was always fun and exciting, but, they don’t understand santa claus, they are 3, 18 months and lol 9 weeks so we have a while to go but i don’t know if they will believe in santa. I want to do the whole cookies and milk thing, but as i say, they just don’t understand. The easter bunny, no. I didn’t grow up on the easter bunny, i don’t find anything magical about it. We’ll teach our girls about what Easter really is and then we’ll hide eggs and let them find them we have fun basically, water fights if the weather is right, but no easter bunny here i’m afraid.
I am raising my girls 11, 7and a half and 3 and a half to believe in these things. The oldest has gotten wise to Santa but not the Tooth Fairy or The Easter Bunny. We make the holidays about much more than these myths. I grew up with these beliefs and was not angry or devastated when I found out the truth.
My children believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy. It’s a wonderful fantasy for them, full of innocence, and my husband and I appreciate that even our older son still believes. We were believers as well, when we were children, and weren’t at all destroyed when we grew up and realized that it was our parents who played the roles.
Santa Claus was actually a real person… St. Nicholas.
in our house we celebrate the holidays that christmas and easter are deriver from. yule for christmas (no santa) and the vernal equinox and the godess Eostre for easter. ( in german mythology she turned a swan into a rabit to amuse some children, thats were the easter eggs come from)
We focus on what the holidays are really about, so when they find out the mythical characters are not real, they still have the true meaning of the holiday to hold on to.
i was not devastated when i was old enough to figure it out, kinda dramatic don’t you think, also, my older children love hiding the eggs and talking about Santa to the younger ones, they loved these things when they were little and want there siblings to have the same joy, DEVI STATED oh come on,your parents were not lieing to you, they were giving you a childhood because they love you, you are being absurd
I never actually believed in any of those things.
We are telling our children that Santa brings the goodies in the stockings (but not the presents) and the easter bunny brings a basket. But I don’t intend to try too hard to hide it if/when they start asking questions. I’ll tell them that Santa is a symbol, the spirit of giving, and so is the easter bunny in its season. Probably will do same for the tooth fairy when the time comes.
Basically I want them to have the fun of the characters while knowing it’s all pretend. I don’t really want them to actually believe in such things as real. I don’t think kids will mind pretending.
The way me and my husband are raising our three is to let them believe and when they ask we tell the truth. Because if you lie to them about something as simple as that, then when they find out they won’t believe anything you say. My youngest is 8 and he knows that Santa isn’t real. He also knows the real reason we celebrate Christmas in the first place!!!!
I don’t know what your faith base is but my family is Christian and we teach the real meaning of Christmas and Easter.
tell them from the beging that its not real