Not 'doing' Santa - part two

candygirl

peachyprice wrote: »

So you did do Santa then, just with your own gimme, gimme gimme poem to go with it.

Priceless.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: and then rode off on their magic saucers;)

justmel

Oooooh congratulations you didn't do Santa,made two threads about it and ensured that the second was entirely pointless as you had 'covered everything' in the last one so would not be commenting more on the second,what would you like for your efforts? A gold star?

Abbymoo

I'm...no Father Christmas...coz he's a lie...but...magic dust...isn't a lie...um...I must've had too much Baileys. This is not makeh de sehnse...
If I have nippers I'll be doing FC, magic, the lot. Even got instructions on how to do glitter bootprints on the carpet saved in my bookmarks and am planning on getting a house with a proper chimney for the fella to come down, just to save awkward questions about how he can get in through an air vent.

candygirl

Abbymoo wrote: »

I'm...no Father Christmas...coz he's a lie...but...magic dust...isn't a lie...um...I must've had too much Baileys. This is not makeh de sehnse...
If I have nippers I'll be doing FC, magic, the lot. Even got instructions on how to do glitter bootprints on the carpet saved in my bookmarks and am planning on getting a house with a proper chimney for the fella to come down, just to save awkward questions about how he can get in through an air vent.

Don't forget he also has a "magic key";):D

Mum_of_Boys

OP... I just so hope your child/children don't go to the same school as my younger two.. who still believe in the magic of christmas... even though having 2 older brothers who now know it's make believe but appreciates the christmas magic is priceless for younger children and woudn't dream of letting them know anything different until they were old enough to understand... If your child/children are in my boys' school and openly said that FC didn't exist..... I really wouldn't be a happy bunny !!!! ... Talking of which.... Do you celebrate easter at your house? Or again, do you you spoil that too? I'd feel disgusted with myself knowing I stole my childrens' magic !!

shegirl

Xebnotlaw wrote: »

So you're telling her that Santa isn't real but then sprinkling 'magic dust' on a pillowcase? Along with singing a rhyme about magic. Why would you tell a little girl that Santa is not a real thing but let her believe that magic is? Surely you may as well just let her believe in Father Christmas for a bit longer... It seems a bit contradictory.
Also, when she tells all of her friends that he isn't real then you are going to have some unhappy parents to contend with...

Exactly what I was thinking. :rotfl::rotfl:

shegirl

If she KNOWS the presents are from you what exactly is the point of magic dust and poems to make them appear in the morning !!!!!!

I swear some people do these things just for the sake of being different!!!

skintchick wrote: »

Nope, Ada, it was just a follow on to the other thread (not started by me) which had a lot of discussion. And I don't intend to have all that discussion again here. People are welcome to find and read that thread or not, but I'm not going to repeat what I said on there, here.

I didn't put this on the end of that thread as by the end it was more about honesty and truthfulness than not doing Father Christmas.

Discuss or not as you all see fit, I won't be repeating my original comments, nor defending my position or what I do.

All I can say is that make believe is VERY different to telling your children FC is an absolute, and that the magic and joy that people attribute to FC is quite clearly achieveable in other ways, via make believe and pretend that is honest (DD knows the gifts are from me and OH).

That was the point, just to follow up on those accusations from the other thread. Any discussion ought really to follow on from that rather than repeat, but I'm not going to comment further, just read (maybe). I am pretty certain I have covered any questions previously, on the first thread (with same title so easy to find).

zoesmummy_2006

I have a 6 and 4 year old who believe in santa still and long may it last as far as im concerned, we watch santa claus the movie every xmas eve and put out a mince pie and milk for santa and carrots for the reindeer, they even got a pot of reindeer food from school each and we sprinkled that outside for them too as well as hung a special santa key on out front door as dd says he can only get into houses with proper chimneys lol.

My dd wrote a beautiful letter to santa again (which I have put with her others she's written previous years) and the pair of them have been so excited. There was a boy in my dd's class who is 6 like her and he told her santa wasnt real and she told me she didnt believe him.

I very almost came to blows with my brother on xmas day when we went to visit grandparents on xmas day as santa had left a couple of presents for them there too, and my ignorant, speaks before he thinks brother, marched upstairs shouting "tell them the truth, theyre old enough to know". Lets just say I had a few choice words for him, along the lines of that just cos he doesnt feel the need to enjoy christmas anymore doesnt give him the right to dare try and spoil it for MY kids, his neice and nephew, and if he had a problem with that he could take it up with me and our parents who were also not happy with him.

Christmas is once a year and its such a lovely time for kids, why would anyone want to take away the magic for them. Theyre only little for such a short time, I intend to let my 2 enjoy every second of it, even things that are supposedly not real!!

dizziblonde

shegirl wrote: »

Exactly what I was thinking. :rotfl::rotfl:

Oh god if your child's the one that runs around any of the toddler groups my kids end up at wrecking Christmas for all of them with the "no Santa" thing you'd be feeling my wrath pretty sharpish (kind of expect the discussion to start once you hit school age but any younger than that and I'd be incredibly annoyed) and that's what is going to happen - or at the very best you'll have one rather confused kid feeling very left out when their peers are all getting excited and drawing pictures of Santa and whatever... or are you going to proceed to ruin Christmas for their entire pre-school class and demand they don't do anything Santa-related there too? Wouldn't surprise me.

I'd rather have a character like Santa/Father Christmas, with a backstory to him that can be looked at when kids are older - the whole St Nicholas thing - and traditions that can be compared and contrasted across different countries with all the learning opportunities that come from that... than some "I want some presents sparkly sparkly sparkly" crap.

mrbrightside842

Seems tight to me!

Also, if she goes to school with 29 other children whose parents want them to believe in Santa, the teachers will play along to those 29 kids and say 'of course Santa is real' when she announces that he isn't. The teachers won't announce that she's right to the others.