Tell children Santa exists?

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Thoughts on telling your child about Santa? Do you think it is right to tell them this lie just to end up having to cause them upset by eventually telling them he does not exist? Plus, we teach them it is wrong to lie but we do it 🤷‍♀️

It dies t cause upset! Children just age out of Santa.

*doesn't

Yes if you're children want to believe, if they are excited by the "magic" of it and if there is no religious reason not to celebrate then I believe you should embrace the Santa story with your children.

It's not going to cause upset , they won't feel they have been terribly lied to, they will remember fondly the joy.

I think by the time children question Santa (you should never TELL them I don't think, only answer them if they ASK), they won't be upset by the answer, as they will already know deep down.

I've seen some lovely answers to the "is Santa real" question this year, and particularly like the one where Santa was described as the spirit of Christmas, and the child told that now that they know, it's also their job to make sure that Santa stays alive in the hearts of younger ones.. and that just because they know "Santa" doesn't exist, this doesn't mean that everything he stands for is fake.

Please don’t be a Scrooge. Christmas is magical, it’s hardly a horrible lie. Christmas & Santa was the most exciting, wonderful time as a child. I can still remember the sheer excitement on Christmas Eve, waking every hour to see if ‘he’d been’ & the joy when my stocking was full!

Was I upset when I realised it was my parents? For sure but only for a little while. I’m not mentally scarred. I don’t hate my parents. They made Christmas wonderful.

It’s a little right of passage!