Santa’s watching…are you kidding?
Here’s the dilemma, do you take Santa Currency seriously (the parental method of keeping your kid in-line from Halloween to Christmas Eve.)
Maybe you decide to keep the magic alive, embellishing the story for year, putting out the chocolate chip cookies and cool glass of milk?
OR
You tell them the Truth About Santa and pinky swear they will NOT share it with any one of their little naive friends?
When my daughter was five, she asked me if Santa is real.
My theory was the latter OPTION, to always tell the truth (I still have remnants of dishonesty issues and did not want that to be her lesson in life as well...)
“No,” I replied, “Santa isn’t real.”
“So YOU are Santa?”
“Yes”
"And what about the Easter Bunny?"
“That’s me too.”
"And the Tooth Fairy??"
"Yep."
I went on to tell her that some parents WANT their children to believe in Santa. They don’t want to ruin the "Game." Eventually the kids find out.
She promised not to tell anyone. Looked me in the eye, and swore she wouldn't breathe a word.
I dropped her off at Wee Care Daycare and she proceeded to blab to all of her friends that Santa isn’t real.
The parents called throughout the night. One insisted Taelor had traumatized their daughter, Shannon. She'd fallen asleep, sobbing, about not having a Santa in her life.
Oh boy.
Whatdoyado?
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