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Old 12-03-2007, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by MrsMcD View Post
I have never told my child that Santa is real. He isn't so I would feel that I was being dishonest. I always told him that he was just like Barney, Winnie-the-Pooh, or any other made up character.

Besides, I never wanted Santa to get credit for the money I spend on my child's gifts.

However, he did get to sit on Santa's lap and take pictures. We do have fun at Christmas time.
This is exactly how we handled it with our kids. We never told them that Santa was real; only that he was like a funny cartoon character that people associated with Christmas. I didn't want to tell them that he was real, since people tend to make him too much like God (knowing right from wrong, etc). I didn't want to confuse them about God being real. But we did let them visit Santa at the mall if they wanted, etc.
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