Should children learn the truth about Santa Claus?

Question

Xmas is coming....and my teacher ask me should or shouldn't and i can't answer him...i think shouldn't but i can't have any ideas to support my opinion...can you help me...tell me what your ideas?...thanks a lot

Answer 1

I think you should let children believe in the "good things" as long as they can. It wont be long till they don't believe in anything. Let them enjoy Santa as long as they can. They grow up fast enough as it is... :-)

Answer 2

To find out why you shouldn't tell them, go to the mall and watch their little faces light up at the decorations and the Santa. See the excitement and the anticipation they experience throughout December and when you go into a store listen to the children saying, "I'm going to ask Santa for this"> Then you come back and tell me why you should.

Children loose their innocence all too soon. The wonder of Christmas is so big to them. They can't imagine anyone but Santa being able to do what gets done and giving out all those toys.

I am raising two of my grandchildren and there is nothing you could say to make me want to take the wonderment of the Christmas season away from them. They are 2 and 3 years old and every time we leave the house they are so excited. Once you tell them about Santa then they start to grow up and loose some of the childhood joys, innocence and excitement. I would never take that from a child. They are what Christmas is all about.

Answer 3

With my son, we never did the Santa thing. He knew some kids believed Santa was real. But we choose to focus on the true meaning of Christmas and how we must help others. My thought was if we teach our children that Santa is real, then they will never understand why we need to donate money and toys to charities. If we teach them about Santa, then kids will not understand why they didn't get anything while little Jon in class got a PS3 from Santa. Plus there is the whole not being truthful issue. We want our kids to be honest with us but we tell them to believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, ect. It's a double standard that isn't right.
With my daughter, my husband demanded that we not "mess" her up like we did our son. So she does believe in Santa. I don't meantion Santa and everything she learns, she gets from daddy. It is exciting to see her face when she sees a Santa in a store or gets a present from Santa. So now I have mixed emotions on this topic.

Answer 4

I found out about Santa at a very young age...my grandfather told me and he use to take me to the toy store and let me pick what toys I wanted...it didn't traumatize me in any way...I mean maybe it made me a little more aware of money and cautious on what I asked for...like I wasn't gonna ask my parents for a pony or something ridiculous like that...however, I want my daughter to believe in Santa as long as possible. I think it helps to keep them more innocent and young minded. And it gives them a little magic in there world...which is always fun. Now a days kids are growing too fast and it is very sad to see them lose all the fun and excitement that goes along with Christmas and believing in Santa Clause.

Answer 5

I don't think that I or my cousins were damaged in any way by being "misled" for a few years of our childhood by well-meaning parents and their stories about Santa.

I remember those years as magical.....regardless of the fact that Santa wasn't even real.

I have many many friends who cried the day they had to tell their kids that Santa wasn't real. Some were very hard to convince.

My parents didn't tell me. I just found out from friends and relatives....it wasn't a problem.

I subscribe to the Christian religion, but it amuses me that in our culture, we can believe in God and Jesus, and their miracles.
Yes, Jesus really lived, and yes, there was a book written about him, but the same goes for Santa Claus. He really existed, and there are books written about him.

Why, then, do we make the kids stop believing? (Because they eventually find out that WE buy the presents)

I wish someone could do the same with the people that follow those crazy televangelists.

Answer 6

That's a question that every parent has to decide what's right for their child; it's not something a teacher should be telling a classroom full of second graders. Parents have a right to encourage whatever beliefs they want to instill in their children, be it Santa Claus, Christianity, Budism, the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny. There is no one-size-fits-all answer.

Answer 7

Kids will find out eventually anyway. I think the thought of Santa is a good one....someone who give things away just because. Who knows when we have been bad or good but loves us anyway? Sounds a lot like God to me.

I think you should never lie to a child. If they ask you point blank, "Is there a Santa?" Ask them what they think. You shouldn't tell them "of course there is" or something stupid like that. But, let them have some imagination for pete's sake!!!! If they don't think there is, ask them why. Don't make them believe, but share the experience with them.

When they are old enough to not be upset at there being a Santa, they are ready to know....and they gte there in their own time.

Answer 8

What truth about Santa Claus?

Answer 9

I don't know why parents lie to their kids in the first place. It's a strange idea to me, to make up this odd fantasy about gifts being given by a mythical stranger. My son has always known that at the end of the year we celebrate and exchange gifts. Why would I externalize that into a strange fantasy without any meaning in reality? I think your child will probably figure it out for himself one day. It's not exactly a secret.

Answer 10

i think they should know, lieing to them about santa is giving them the wrong idea about lieing, and they should be good so theyr parents get them presents not santa.if id been told such things about santa as a child i think id have been scared

Answer 11

Oh no. You got to keep the dream alive.

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge: Enstein.
What does that mean? Well I imagined I was brilliant at College and I passed some things top of class. And they told me at high-school how dumb I was. Not so...... Point being- I had to know how to dream in order to be able to use Einstein's idea. [Thanks mom and dad.]