tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131907587674600113.post183122371714332123..comments2023-10-22T00:15:42.652+11:00Comments on It Just Occurred To Me ...: That I've been carried away promoting a conspiracy theoryPaula Vincehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02079952414990463270noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131907587674600113.post-36881887256098753482013-06-30T16:58:30.329+10:002013-06-30T16:58:30.329+10:00Thanks for your comments, everyone. I've enjoy...Thanks for your comments, everyone. I've enjoyed reading them. Now it occurs to me how gullible and strange children such as yours must all think their Santa-&-Co believing friends are.<br />PS, I wish blogs were like Face Book because I wanted to click 'like' for those comments.Paula Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02079952414990463270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131907587674600113.post-64879358880909731402013-06-28T09:07:24.463+10:002013-06-28T09:07:24.463+10:00Selfishly, my dislike of the fat guy getting the c...Selfishly, my dislike of the fat guy getting the credit for all my hard work was what got us out of Santa Claus, and once that's gone it's pretty easy to get rid of the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy as well (note that we still have to cough up the cash for the teeth. We just don't have to sneak in at midnight to do it).<br /><br />We gave it up for good when we moved back to New Zealand from England. We spent three months travelling through Europe and the USA, and it only took a couple of weeks of buying a little gift here and a little memento there before we realised it was going to add up - and that we were going to arrive in NZ with no jobs and Christmas just around the corner. So we told the kids that some of the stuff we bought would be for now, some would be for Christmas, and we'd send some to Santa for him to bring back at Christmas. <br /><br />They were only five and seven, but they both saw straight through that. They didn't mind, because the compromise meant they got things they wanted (we found a Wal-Mart having a closing down sale. We got abut $500 worth of Lego for less than $100. The problem quickly became one of luggage space!). Iolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17199141868703826943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131907587674600113.post-5204976458129150762013-06-28T07:53:08.932+10:002013-06-28T07:53:08.932+10:00I do want to them to remain convinced of the truth...<i>I do want to them to remain convinced of the truth of God who is active and loving - and not think "maybe that's just like Santa"</i> I'm with Jenny on this one. That's the real danger of allowing our kids to believe Santa, the Tooth Fairy etc are real. Sure, let them have fun with these things, they need to know the real truth. Great post Paula :-)Lyn Chttp://theencouragingscribe.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131907587674600113.post-47910831922627361032013-06-28T00:38:36.625+10:002013-06-28T00:38:36.625+10:00Thanks for a great post Paula. I was nodding my he...Thanks for a great post Paula. I was nodding my head as you went through each one of your points. That is exactly why we didn't buy into the Santa/Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy thing with our kids. (My parents didn't either but my husband's parents had.) They know the gifts, eggs or tooth money come from Mum & Dad. We tell then the real story behind St Nick (an early Christian who gave gifts to poor children).<br /><br />I really didn't want to spend years convincing my kids of things that weren't true only to have to own up later that it had all been a game. On the other hand, I do want to them to remain convinced of the truth of God who is active and loving - and not think "maybe that's just like Santa". <br /><br />It can get tricky - my seven year tells me that most of the his class still believes in Santa but he is seems to be diplomatic about it. Jeanette O'Haganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11057798704247611224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131907587674600113.post-8376026683550402472013-06-27T19:58:07.056+10:002013-06-27T19:58:07.056+10:00Thanks, guys, for your comments.
Amanda, that does...Thanks, guys, for your comments.<br />Amanda, that does sound like the very reasonable thing to do. We come from a long line of messed-up conspiricist theorists, lol. Paula Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02079952414990463270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131907587674600113.post-3424200382809568292013-06-27T14:56:25.590+10:002013-06-27T14:56:25.590+10:00We never tried to convince our kids that Santa or ...We never tried to convince our kids that Santa or the Easter Bunny were true. We told them the true meaning of both was about Jesus. We told them that Santa and the Easter Bunny were fun pretend characters like any other fairy-tale. So they got to enjoy them still, without the devastating eye-opening when they grew older. It seemed to work well with them. :)Amanda Deedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02430837640142332983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131907587674600113.post-13755873487395111612013-06-27T14:31:31.359+10:002013-06-27T14:31:31.359+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.Travis Kowlessarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06330963150046202785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131907587674600113.post-8022354686896605262013-06-27T14:31:18.707+10:002013-06-27T14:31:18.707+10:00Andrew was always good at the Easter bunny thing! ...Andrew was always good at the Easter bunny thing! I remember when we we just little kids and you guys were over for Easter, we looked out the window and caught Andrew hopping around in the garden placing eggs for the egg hunt! We would've been sad to discover that it wasn't the Easter bunny placing them if he didn't look so funny that we laughed about it instead >.<Travis Kowlessarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06330963150046202785noreply@blogger.com