Serious Will you tell your kids about Santa Claus or not?

My parents always played up the Santa Claus thing for both me and my sister. We absolutely loved it. Christmas was always an exciting time of the year for both of us. We'd both go to bed on Christmas Eve full of giggles and excitement and not able to fall asleep because we knew Santa would be coming, but if we didn't fall asleep then he wouldn't show up! That was a wonderful experience for me as a child and I have very fond memories of Christmastime, at least for me. I want my son to experience those same things that I experienced. I want him to go to sleep on Christmas Eve with his little heart pounding in his chest with excitement because he knows Santa will be coming down his chimney and leaving him presents and a stocking.

I'm playing up the whole Santa thing big time with him this year. I've wrapped all of his presents but they are currently hidden and I won't put them under the tree until Christmas Eve after he's fast asleep. We're going to bake sugar cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve so he can leave them out for Santa. I'm going to do this with him for as long as I can until he realizes on his own (as I did) that Santa isn't real. I want his childhood memories at Christmastime to be as fond as mine are, and I want him to experience all the magic of Christmas that I felt when I was little. So yes, my son does know about Santa Claus and truly believes Santa is going to be visiting our house on Christmas Eve after he's asleep to bring him presents and surprises.
 
Everyone does their thing, I have already planned this out.

Kids eventually learn to live with the fact that Santa doesn't exist. Just like I did. Heartbroken, but got over it after a few weeks....or months. i don't recall.

But I don't want to lie to my kids. Yes, I'm the religious type (Catholic), so I really don't feel comfortable with lying. I'll tell them about St. Nick instead, the person Santa Claus is based on. I'll then tell them that's why we see all the Santas in Christmas time, and still get to celebrate with presents, all while having learned some history and watch them get all happy.

And by the way, St. Nick is the patron saint of....well I forget, but he's a welcome addition to the Church. I'm just stating what pops up on the top of my head, so feel free to research and prove me wrong. :)
 
I haven't read everyone's replies so I dont know if Im just repeating what everyone else said, but Ive never heard a friend or anyone else ever complain that they were lied to by their parents that Santa Claus doesnt exist.
 
Funny thing is I never had to ask. My parents still haven't told me yes or no, and I only ever confronted them with it once at about 5 years old. We still talk about it in a mocking way if it ever comes up, and while obviously I know otherwise, it has managed to keep christmas day feeling more than just another ordinary day. Christmas spirit and all, so I'd definitely keep a secret from my kids should I have any. They'd find out themselves through pure common sense.
 
Going to tell them Santa doesn't exist early on, but that they should be respectful of families who like to maintain the illusion. Just seems like the most blatantly obvious course of action in my book.
 
Of course I will. All about how he lives on Pluto and is a robot. He was programmed to give presents to good kids and punish bad ones, but went haywire in is programming and became too demanding, leading to incredibly precise and difficult to reach requirements to be classified as "good." And so every year, he comes to Earth to declare a 24 hour long war on all peoples, because every one is "bad" now.

And yes, I like Futurama.
 
GBJoker said:
And yes, I like Futurama.
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Ah, who doesn't like Futurama, eh? :)

And I agree with Vryheid. Some of us will/won't tell our kids about Santa Claus. But we have to respect the people who do. No use being @$$[beep]s about it, right?
 
Here the good part, adult think kids have wild imagination so they disregard what their children say to them if it sounds crazy.
However what if what they say is true and if it is then we are the ignorant ones which is a extremly terrible ideal to think about.

Any way i am not into religion at all however i celebrate cristmas. Why because it a wonderful time to say hi to relatives and to see the young ones with such happy faces it is truly wonderrful so i do not see why he would not like it.
Uh and my mother told us kids everything that went on no madder how bad it was. She never hide anything for us which she was critisize for doing it however i love that she was like that. however stuff like cristmass she allow us to have fun and just forget what was real or fake alow us to be free of worry.

sorry abd at grammar

Elly said:
My parents always played up the Santa Claus thing for both me and my sister. We absolutely loved it. Christmas was always an exciting time of the year for both of us. We'd both go to bed on Christmas Eve full of giggles and excitement and not able to fall asleep because we knew Santa would be coming, but if we didn't fall asleep then he wouldn't show up! That was a wonderful experience for me as a child and I have very fond memories of Christmastime, at least for me. I want my son to experience those same things that I experienced. I want him to go to sleep on Christmas Eve with his little heart pounding in his chest with excitement because he knows Santa will be coming down his chimney and leaving him presents and a stocking.

I'm playing up the whole Santa thing big time with him this year. I've wrapped all of his presents but they are currently hidden and I won't put them under the tree until Christmas Eve after he's fast asleep. We're going to bake sugar cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve so he can leave them out for Santa. I'm going to do this with him for as long as I can until he realizes on his own (as I did) that Santa isn't real. I want his childhood memories at Christmastime to be as fond as mine are, and I want him to experience all the magic of Christmas that I felt when I was little. So yes, my son does know about Santa Claus and truly believes Santa is going to be visiting our house on Christmas Eve after he's asleep to bring him presents and surprises.
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so cute what my mother did was always put out all the presents like 8 days before cristmas. we back cookies on cristmass eve and was allow to open up one.
then that night she would take the 3 best present and wrape them and put them not under the cristmass tree but in are mail slot going into the house since we did not have a chimney then put stockings as well stuff full of small things their as well. we always woke up way earler and attack the stocking of course we had to wait for mom before opening the presents are the santa presents. then their later one was always the at lest one agrument even that was fun listening to. only sad part is mom cried later one and so when i was 8 and below i would curl up on her lap until she stop. Then was the well mom have a wonderful voice she sang to me until i feel asleep.
I love cristmass any agrument any other time was a lot worse and ended ina lot worse way like my mom and me being kick out in middle of the night sleeping on teh road.
sorry i'll shut up know.

i love cristmas
sorry for bad grammar
 
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