When I think about my husband or children or even an older ancestor I may not have met but I have a picture of and know the history about, I’m not really using my imagination. It’s not believing in something that you think to be real. The following are the rebuttals to the many issues that have been raised in response to something that apparently is as bad as feeding children a diet solely of McDonald’s.įolks, imagination is being able to imagine things that aren’t real. I don’t know which way individual children will go, but for us it was just the right thing to do in our house. For others, finding out the lie was devastating. I should say, though, that if you choose to do Santa with your kids, that’s wonderful! I have no problems with that whatsoever and for many people, believing was a cherished part of their childhood. ![]() I would like to take this moment to tell you how absolutely, ridiculously wrong these people are in case you, too, are thinking of going this route. We hear how she will somehow suffer as she looks back at some lost childhood from not believing. We are told we’re ruining her imagination. This means we get a lot of flack from people who don’t know us or our daughter. My son is only just 3 and thus has very little awareness of it all, but my daughter is 8 and has never believed Santa is a real person. Yet, many moons ago, my husband and I made the active decision not to raise our kids with this believe. Santa is everywhere and it has become somewhat sacrilege to not have children that “believe” in Santa. ![]() ![]() The holidays are rolling around and if you live in a Christian-centric culture, chances are you are facing the onslaught of Santa (even though Santa has nothing to do with the Christian religion). ‘Santa’s Portrait’ byThomas Nast, published in Harper’s Weekly, 1881
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