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Lying to kids about Santa
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Because all fun you ever had is on religious holidays, right.
Jeff Albertson
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No but they don't need to know everything at young ages
Very bad example on my part I just can't get my head around this notion of it somehow being harmful to let them have a sense of wonder and believe in something magical
I'm just baffled is all
Devolution
Member
No but it'd be pretty alienating to see Easter and Christmas all around you but dad is such a hardcore atheist you're not allowed to celebrate.
Secret Fawful
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Three-fourths of those things aren't fun. My mom once said this very thing to me, though, with tears in her eyes. Then I laughed right at her face.
Actually, my parents never let me do Christmas, and they forced my family to not send us presents.
Uh.. yes? Did you just climb out of a cave?
CornBurrito
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And yet Jewish kids manage fine, even though Hanukkah doesn't hold a candle to Christmas (no pun intended).
Hell, most of the Jewish holidays are bland and boring as fuck.
They can do whatever they want. I won't have any part in it, though. Also, we can have our own Gustav Fest.
Broder Salsa
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No. I tell them they will die if they don't behave. It's the only way to make them have some manners these days.
Hahaha - die like in the next couple minutes?
Jeff Albertson
Member
I wouldn't let it bother you
I often read threads on forums in which folk state their opinions and I just presume the OP is a kid who heard an opinion somewhere and decided they like the sound of it and adopt it as their own
You gunning for a worlds worst dad award or something? Do you even have kids or are these your hypothetical kids that are about to have a crummy holiday?
As someone who's family never celebrated Christmas and Thanksgiving, I can tell you that it sucked as a kid when everyone around me was raving about their Thanksgiving and Christmas plans, and I could never talk about that or be a part of those festivities.
It still sucks, actually.
Secret Fawful
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That's the misconception. They won't have a holiday.
Don't know too many kids scarred from believing in Santa. Honestly I think the idea is promoted by adults who wish they could they could believe in Santa and have just gone through too much shit.
Childhood wonder and innocence should be enjoyed. They'll have most of their lives to deal with the shit in the world. I bet most who post on gaf are in their 20s and are already cynical and jaded beyond repair.
Childhood wonder and innocence should be enjoyed. They'll have most of their lives to deal with the shit in the world. I bet most who post on gaf are in their 20s and are already cynical and jaded beyond repair.
My family didn't celebrate either and I can tell you that nothing about it sucked for me. I laughed at those poor 8 year old schmucks who believed Santa is real.
Hydranockz
Member
The word you want is 'excitement'.
I'm glad you had your fun as a child laughing at other children for having fun.
This is just sad tbh.
Devolution
Member
Oh wow.
Lol, true.
Bullshit. You missed out on the fun of Christmas and are just deluding yourself into pretending it didn't bother you.
Awesome. What about the seven year olds? What about the six year olds? What is the age cutoff for being a shmuck?
You don't come across as bitter and resentful in the slightest.
Jeff Albertson
Member
In your head maybe you were laughing but it sounds like you were the real butt of the joke
'Ha ha look at those fools being happy'
So volunteering that cartoons aren't real at a young age is inherently wrong? There are some things a child does not need to know about reality as they are not ready to accept such facts, but Santa is not a fact of life.
Secret Fawful
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Why? Because he's not the same as you? Because he wasn't fooled into following right behind society's meaningless traditions?
EdibleExplosives
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Santa is real, I don't know what you're talking about.
Devolution
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It's not meaningless to basically have an annual holiday of family togetherness and presents. Dear lord it's getting bitter in here.
Even in a family where everyone was a Catholic growing up, Christmas was never about Jesus. Not even remotely.
This is what your kid will be like, OP. I hope you're happy. >:{
Hydranockz
Member
They mean nothing to you perhaps. How close minded can you be?
There is something magical about Santa and Christmas. My parents still give me Santa gifts every year and I'm 33. My 3 year old loves Santa and is on good behavior so he can get his toys lol...which works even more magically for me.
But really I don't care how every family does Christmas, do what works for you. My family is Huge on Christmas, Santa and all the magic that comes with it. We will never stop
But really I don't care how every family does Christmas, do what works for you. My family is Huge on Christmas, Santa and all the magic that comes with it. We will never stop
I don't see how it's at all harmful. Little stories like this help kids develop their imagination. Yeah, you could say that their parents are working hard and struggling to get them their presents for christmas morning, but where is the fun in that? Kids enjoy christmas, they like the idea of a little elf toy factory in the north pole. Would you really want to take that away from them?
What the hell is this?
lol at Gustav. Your childhood must have sucked brah. It's almost as if you want to go out of your way to have fun. Christmas party with the family is awesome, especially when you're a kid. But it's cool though at least you can make fun of kids that believed in Santa. That will show them! ah ah...
I'm going to be frank with my kids that I get them presents because I love them, not because some dumbass in a sleigh does.
My parents didn't confess to me he wasn't real until I was like 11 but I basically knew since I was 4.
I told my neighbor once and got in trouble with his mom because I told him Santa wasn't real.
Enjoy your presents because real people gave them to you.
My parents didn't confess to me he wasn't real until I was like 11 but I basically knew since I was 4.
I told my neighbor once and got in trouble with his mom because I told him Santa wasn't real.
Enjoy your presents because real people gave them to you.
When you were 8, you were basically Nelson from the Simpsons. Proof that depriving your children of holidays like the other kids is a sort of child abuse.
Secret Fawful
Member
No, it is meaningless, because that should exist ALL YEAR ROUND.
He basically said that Christmas time didn't suck for him because he had fun spending time laughing at other children for being happy, excited, and having fun.
What part of that is not sad?
Devolution
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Not really. It's easy to have some times of the year where everyone can get together, especially if you end up in different places.
No, I was more like Lisa. Telling them they were uneducated babies who believed in a fairy tale.
still a douche though, I admit. 
Makes me think of a guy I know who's parents didn't allow him to watch TV when he was a kid. He doesn't know who Elmo is.
Elmo.
Secret Fawful
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No, he said he laughed at them for believing a thing that isn't true.
It's the same as, and I will regret bringing this in, laughing at extreme fundamentalist Christians.
ok bye
:lol oh come on
Believing in imaginary beings does bring merriment and helps us cope with the harsh reality of the world. Most people grow out of Santa Claus, but they cling to God.
Little kids believing in Santa is not the same as fundamentalist Christianity, that's some twisted logic right there.
It does in my family but Christmas brings the magic. I won't bother trying to describe Christmas magic because its clear you've never experienced it and you seem very close minded about the holiday in general.
I wish you could related, it's amazing.
PeakPointMatrix
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you sound like a blast.
I bet you don't watch movies either and all that other make believe nonsense.
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