I wonder

Mason1729 said:
I seriously don't understand the whole point in lying to your kids saying there is an obese old man, who never shaves, that slides through chimneys, eats the milk and cookies, and delivers billions of presents to every Christian child in the world in less than milliseconds...
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Aww, Mason, bless you.

The tradition to tell your children father Christmas is coming, is years old - it has history to it and it is harmless really, as by the time children find out there is no Father Christmas, they have worked it out anyway.

It just adds to the dream, the whole fantasy of Christmas, the excitement.

Sometimes, as children, all we have is fantasy, to keep us going through life - not as bad as it seems. :)
 
UncleBacon said:
I'm just curious...when do you stop the lie though and tell them their is no Santa
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We have this tradition and as corny as it sounds its worked wonders for generations.
When we turned 10 our parents told us that santa could no longer bring us presents and our parents were to take over and buy the presents. The reason santa could no longer bring the presents was because on the day we celebrated our 10th birthday a new child was born at exactly the same time as we were and Santa needed to take care of that New child when it came to christmas gifts.

When i was told it made me feel uber important that santa was doing something for someone else and i had gotten old enough to not need him around anymore.
Of course not long after kids talk and You figure things out for yourself about what really goes on, but for that short amount of time you feel great, ive already started telling my eldest son about this and he feels great about the fact a new baby will be born on the exact day at the exact time as he was and he is glad santa gets to give gifts to that child :)
 
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