{"id":1767115,"date":"2022-12-08T07:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767115"},"modified":"2022-12-08T07:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:17:33","slug":"i-wont-lie-to-my-kids-about-santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-wont-lie-to-my-kids-about-santa-claus\/","title":{"rendered":"I Won\u2019t Lie To My Kids About Santa Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-wont-lie-to-my-kids-about-santa-claus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>I\u2019ve made up my mind. I\u2019m not going to lie to my future children about Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>Call me a grinch, a Scrooge, or even a communist, as one of my colleagues recently joked, but I refuse to sacrifice my kids\u2019 trusting relationship with me over a fat man with a beard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2013\/12\/20\/meet-weirdos-never-santa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I\u2019m not alone<\/a> in my hesitation to incorporate Kris Kringle into sacred Christmas traditions. <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2019\/12\/ok-to-say-santa-not-real-care-and-feeding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plenty of parents<\/a> are uncomfortable with the idea of giving credit for their thoughtful, hand-picked gifts to a mysterious elderly man who trespasses through the chimney, eats the leftover cookies, and lets his reindeer trample on the roof. <\/p>\n<p>One of the most obvious rationales for abandoning fanfare about Santa is that it requires blatant lying. At a time when every institution in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seeks to distance children from their parents<\/a>, I want my kids to know they can and should trust me and my husband with their lives, hopes, dreams, grief, and hardships. I also want them to know they can trust God with those.<\/p>\n<p>Sending mixed messages about whether God, the divinely associated modern-day Santa, and invisible historical figures are real is not something I want my young, vulnerable children to feel like they must face alone. <\/p>\n<p>The tradition associated with Santa is fun and may be done in good faith, but when the truth surfaces, it requires an explanation for years of deception and deceit. And oftentimes, that deception and deceit were projected on innocent, naive children for the benefit of their parents\u2019 enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>Parents might think that giving their kids a \u201cmagical\u201d Christmas is worth being dishonest, a falsehood that my Santa-less, magical childhood proves wrong. But what happens when that \u201cmagic\u201d wears off? <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen and heard of too many kids crying after learning Santa isn\u2019t real. The truth about Santa breaks their hearts and their trust, especially if that truth surfaces prematurely. Even some parents become <a href=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/news\/kid-tells-school-friend-santa-not-real\/the-mom-shared-her-predicament-earlier-this-month-in-the-anonymous-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">irrationally upset<\/a> that their child\u2019s Christmas is \u201cruined\u201d after he is informed the \u201cmagic\u201d that gave Santa his allure isn\u2019t real. <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care if you choose to let your kids believe in the myth of Santa. I, however, simply refuse to breach the trust of my children over something as trivial as a fat man with a beard.<\/p>\n<p> The Secular Santa Ruse Spoils the True Meaning of Christmas <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not here to say you can\u2019t enjoy Santa as a character, but it is increasingly harder each year to look past the gross commercialization of the man with a bowl full of jelly to the greatest event ever recorded: the birth of Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the over-glorification of Santa in Christmas movies, Christmas shopping, and Christmas activities has stolen the attention that Christ\u2019s coming, the most incredible story, deserves. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/30\/how-christians-can-push-back-on-the-commercialized-christmas-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consumerism of the holiday season<\/a> has enabled our culture to embrace Father Christmas over God the Father. That choice not only damages our individual spirits, but it damages the spirit of Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/20\/a-2021-wearied-world-can-still-rejoice-over-the-same-old-thrill-of-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thrill of hope<\/a>\u201d that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effort I would spend trying to sell Santa to my kids is much better spent on teaching them about the true reason for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1767118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}