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Originally Posted by MrsMcD
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. 
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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.