2007-12-17 14:58:31 · 20 answers · asked by Gruntled Employee 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Yeah. It seems fun but it's not really nice to tell kids something is real and then they find out it isn't. I don't like it...
2007-12-17 15:01:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Your right, lets not tell our kids about Santa and give them a little extra joy. Let's instead let them have to deal with all the crap in the world that they will already have to deal with soon enough as adults. I mean after all why would we want our children to use their imagination and to believe in good things like Santa.
I'm sorry you can raise your kids how you like, but you don't need to tell others how to raise theirs. Telling kids about Santa doesn't make us bad parents, if it did then almost every parent out there would be a bad parent.
I also know the reason for the season! One of our traditions every year is to make a birthday cake for Jesus, the kids really love doing this and getting to decorate it together is fun!
2007-12-17 23:09:09 · answer #2 · answered by Nikki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kind of i think i would feel guilty if i had a son or daughter and i lied to them about something that wasn't true but than again i wasn't really hurt when i found out....i mean how could one man possibly go to every house in one night come on i had a hard time trying to figure that out even in third grade....but i liked seeing him at the mall......
Do they have Santa in other countries? (Europe or Mexico maybe)
2007-12-17 23:04:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes i do..
I have told my children that santa is someones poppy or uncle or daddy dressed in a red suit..
We buy all the presents why does "santa" get all the praise for it??
Im not going to lie to my children, i dont care if i get thumbs down for it either
Jesus is the reason for this season not santa
2007-12-17 23:47:49 · answer #4 · answered by Lee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no but i feel bad for the kids that witnessed a Santa collapse and die at a bowling ally.
was on the news a while ago.
2007-12-17 23:03:29 · answer #5 · answered by vinak 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
:0 whos lying to santa??
2007-12-17 23:00:49 · answer #6 · answered by iliana 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it seems remarkably similar to the lies Christendom has been telling its "children" for centuries.
By contrast, Jehovah's Witnesses love and respect and honor Christ. They do NOT celebrate so-called "Christmas" because "Christmas" does NOT celebrate Christ; "Christmas" celebrates the pagan Saturnalia. Jesus was not even born in December. Nearly all so-called Christmas customs dishonor Christ.
(Jeremiah 10:2-5) This is what Jehovah has said: "Do not learn the way of the nations at all... 3 For the customs of the peoples are just an exhalation, because it is a mere tree out of the forest that one has cut down, the work of the hands of the craftsman with the billhook. 4 With silver and with gold one makes it pretty. With nails and with hammers they fasten them down, that none may reel. ...the doing of any good is not with them."
http://watchtower.org/e/19981215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20001215/
http://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/19981215/
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm
By contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".
(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”
(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”
Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.
How would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.
(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_08.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_11.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
2007-12-18 17:12:08 · answer #7 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If they can't believe in something simple like Santa when they are young how can we expect them to believe something bigger for themselves when they grow?
2007-12-17 23:09:24 · answer #8 · answered by CollegeJR 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No if it makes a child happy for a while why not. the real world sets in all too quickly.
2007-12-17 23:01:18 · answer #9 · answered by darbygirl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seriously, what a dumb question! It is all about fun, fun and hope for kids. Imagine life without some form of hope to cling to, of fun, of magic.
2007-12-18 03:22:25 · answer #10 · answered by dwetzlerbed 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋