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why doesn't santa go to the poor people ??
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poppyscorner, I'm not sure what I'd tell him, but I agree with those who said you've clearly raised a lovely caring child and you should be a very proud mummy.Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »I believed in Santa till I was 18.
My parents and I had a deal - if I kept believing, the presents kept appearing.
Never quite worked out how he got past the gas fire though :-)
We had a gas fire in the house I lived in when I was little, and my mum told me Father Christmas had a magic key which opened every door in the world for houses where he couldn't come down the chimney. My sister tells my nephew the same thing.
Oh, and re: the stockings, my sisters and I still get stockings at Christmas, and we're 23, 31 and 35!"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." - Tyrion LannisterMarried my best friend 1st November 2014Loose = the opposite of tight (eg "These trousers feel a little loose")Lose = the opposite of find/gain (eg "I'm going to lose weight this year")0 -
My youngest believes in santa, the older one doesn't, but they always thought santa brings all their presents, we never told them we send money to santa etc, i think it spoils the magic a bit if the kids think its all down to money, i know it is really, but i don't want them to know that, although my eldest obviously knows we pay for the things now. She seems scared to ask for anything now she knows we get the presents.!!0
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It's ok - I deserved it lol I snitched on him, dogs tooth fell out, he put it under his pillow to "trick" the tooth fairy. I told mum, Mum later that night put a dog biscuit under his pillow with a note saying he was naughty lol
This is fantastic, made me laugh.We've always believed that santa only filled our stockings. All the lables are read out and clearly say 'love mum and dad' etc so we've always known that wrapped presents are bought by people for us.
All that santa brought was our stockings
I find it amazing that so many households have different ways of doing things. I never got presents OFF Santa, he always brought them. We'd wrap for all our family and put them under the tree, then one 'magical night' the elves would collect them and they'd be gone. Then on Christmas Eve Santa delivered them all.
It's what I did with my daughter too, if Santa brings every present, how do you ensure that the actual person buying the present gets a thank you?
I love reading everyones traditions, we should make a book :jOwain_Moneysaver wrote: »I believed in Santa till I was 18.
My parents and I had a deal - if I kept believing, the presents kept appearing.
Never quite worked out how he got past the gas fire though :-)
That's fab! It's such a shame as you get old the less you get........ maybe that's only because I'm getting older though :rotfl:Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....0 -
minerva_windsong wrote: »We had a gas fire in the house I lived in when I was little, and my mum told me Father Christmas had a magic key which opened every door in the world for houses where he couldn't come down the chimney. My sister tells my nephew the same thing.
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My daughter once asked how Santa got in as we have a gas fire and I said a magic key too. Then we were visiting someone who had a big gold 'Santa Key' hanging by the fire. My daughter asked why it was hung by the fire as obviously Santa wouldn't be able to get it as he couldn't get in................ My friend then moved it to outside the front door - and it got taken!Forty and fabulous, well that's what my cards say....0 -
When I was a single parent, I had no choice but to do my shopping with my now 22 year old DD with me - my explanation was that all the grown ups had to buy things that they thought children would like and send them to Santa who would decide who got what - she believed that one. Now my youngest is 7 (not a single parent now lol), and he asked why so many parcels came from Amazon. My DD's BF said that Santa had hired Amazon and the elves to deliver presents for people to wrap and return to him to deliver to the right people as he really couldn't do it all by himself. I'm not 100% sure that my DS does believe though as he isn't bothered about visiting Santa, but he did insist on reminding me to leave Santa's mince pie and glass of milk, and Rudolph's carrot and bowl of water. I guess next year he may know the truth, but it won't come from me! He will be tracking Santa though, as he has the past few years!0
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OP- I read your post about an hour after you posted yesterday and kept returning my thoughts to it.
The conclusion I came to was that you have to relate it back to his own experience. So you can say
a) people in Africa probably do get presents, just not the presents they would like to have, just like he doesn't get every present he asks for. and like not everyone knows about his presents, we don't know about the presents they get
b) Santa also uses special people to help him out as he's so busy this time of year, so people like us help Santa out by giving money, presents like Oxfam unwrapped, and doing shoeboxes.
You should be dead proud of your littley - what a thoughtful caring child you have.Who made hogs and dogs and frogs?
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It is very hard to lie to bright children. I came up against similar problems with my 2 from quite an early age - eg why does Father Christmas look different in every shop? ( they don't seem to do it so much now, but when DS was little every supermarket had a Santa handing out sweets etc.) Various other questions and it was obvious that from about 5 they were doubting. I think by about 7 they had twigged. I used to say that we bought the presents adn sent them to Father Christmas and he decided if they had been good enough to get them and brought them back with an extra present from him. My MIL used to say that Santa brought one present.
It is a quandary as children should not be encouraged to not realise the value of toys etc.0 -
im sorry but i almost spat out my coffee when someone said they believed in santa till they were 18, seriously
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I didn't really believe of course.
But it's still nice to wake up at 5 am and open some chocolate money and pretend.
And "Santa" enjoyed filling the sock.A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0 -
Interesting thread this.
I've been thinking along the same lines as bylromarha - they do have gifts but not the same as we have here. I would also explain how things are done differently in other cultures too. Santa only brings a stocking in our house though.
As for telling him the truth - I wouldn't, personally.
DD(9) is starting to suspect, I think, but I haven't burst her bubble. I did with my older two when they were 9/10 and, tbh, I regret it.
When I was growing up, we knew he didn't exist from around 9 ish but we were always told non-believers get nothing so we went along with it. Daft thing is, even though we didn't believe, it was still kind of exciting to pretend as my parents still put our presents at the end of our bed!
I decided to be truthful with my older children and they were very disappointed, even though they knew - they said they'd have rather me carry on regardless.
Sooo, that is how I will be playing it with dd2. She has gone to bed very excited tonight, had 'The Night before Christmas' read to her and put out a pie/carrot etc. Oh and we tracked where Santa is on my phone before she went to sleep as well.
I don't know how much she is playing along but she is enjoying it all the same! :j0 -
My 5 year old asked the same question this year after the nspcc advert came on and a few other adverts, I figured he is to young to spoil the magic especially as this is the first year he has been so excited he got out of bed dancing and declaring santa was on his way. It was very hard coming up with a valid explanation but as he was asking about orphans and abused kids we told him that some kids dont have mummies to send their lists to santa and so some people send gifts to these children so that everyone has a present on christmas day, sufficed for this year but rather selfishly i wish they wouldnt show the advert about the little girl wanting santa to visit at teatime.back to comping in 2017, fingers crossed :beer:0
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