are you going to teach your child about santa claus?

[Martin]

Hell yeah! I wouldn't want them to miss out on it because it really is part of growing up and its all part of the magic!

[BreakfastBacon]

wait until they find out themselves but i will tell them before high school I found out when i was liek 5 my sister who is 10 still beleives

[OldLoveSong]

tbh i've thought of this so many times and i still havnt come to a conclusion yet because there's cons and pros to each side.

[Chippiewill]

As an athiest I'm against teaching children that Santa is real as it makes them susceptible to accepting religious deities.

[FlyingJesus]

So you want your kids to have no imagination in case they end up thinking of things that aren't real

[-:Undertaker:-]

As an athiest I'm against teaching children that Santa is real as it makes them susceptible to accepting religious deities.

Will that include Lord of the Rings films?

Oh and fellow Britons, it's 'Father Christmas' not Santa.

[Chippiewill]

Will that include Lord of the Rings films?

Yes I will include the lord of the rings films in the list of stuff I won't tell my children are "real" because that's just plain ******ed.

Oh and fellow Britons, it's 'Father Christmas' not Santa.

Please get over yourself, as long as people know what you're referring to it doesn't matter one jot what you call Mr Noel.

[Whatever]

Yes, because Santa not coming if you don't behave is a good white lie to keep your kids in line during the Holidays, hah.

[LiquidLuck.]

I never really had the Father Santa (Pai Natal in Portuguese) tradition since for us they'd tell us it was Jesus that bought the presents, not really sure why. But he wouldn't come down the chimney like Santa, at 11:30 (yes we used to do it early) he'd close the lights and put it on top of our stove. We never really believed it, but it was fun so..

I doubt I'd let them be older than 8 years old and still believe in Santa, because kids in school can be really mean and we had a girl in our class that was 11 and still believed in Santa and we all started making fun of her..

[sex]

no! i will let them find out themselves