Poll: Does Santa Claus exist? More importantly, what will you tell your children?

[BallPtPenTheif]

I'll never lie to my kids, even if it's over something as stupid as Santa Clause. I will just tell them that "some people believe"... their grandparents can make up all the nutty bullshit they want but I ain't backing them up... and once the kids find out he isn't real BAM distrust in objectivity from the grandparents.

Eat that family.

 

[joystickjunki3]

I'll let them decide what to believe. If they ask me, I'll tell them the truth, but should they choose to believe in Santa I will not crush their dreams.

 

[jboking]

Snopes shot down the whole 'santa is a coke invention' ages ago. People who believe this deserve our pity more than our abuse, no matter how much fun there is to be had at their expense.

Well, I almost agree with ya, but it's a fact that coca cola created the santa claus as we know him today, despite the good works that snopes has done. Santa in the red and white suit was created by the coca cola company during the 1920s as a marketing tool.

I was pretty sure the modern dipiction came from the 1902 book "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus", especially concerning Coca-cola didn't use him until the 1930's.

 

[DeusFps]

He must be real... Something set off the land mines on my roof last year...

 

[Lavi]

I never believed, but my parent's never told me he didn't exist. I plan to tell my kids about Santa and let them choose to believe or not.

What? I was a weird child who learned about reproduction from a genetics book ^-^

 

[jacktard]

Of course he is you bunch of non-beleivers.

 

[Graustein]

All those people saying that the discovery of no Santa will scar the child for life and destroy their trust in their parents, what are you basing this off?

Did you used to believe in Santa, find out he was a lie, and hate your parents forever? Because I most certainly didn't hate my parents forever and never trust them again. Neither did anybody else I know who used to believe in Santa.
So really, what gives? Do none of you trust your parents because of Santa?

 

[DethFan666]

I sat he does. Anyone else that says no is a non believer.

 

[Ago Iterum]

No, Santa Claus does not exist. And I plan on telling my children he doesn't. I'm not going to have them blindly believe in something that obviously isn't true. If my spouse disagrees, I'm not sure what I'd do then. I'd have to put in more thought.

Lol! That's horrible. Let's take all the innocence out of being a child, hell, let's give them jobs too...

The best part about Christmas was believing in it. I will be telling my kids about Santa, because I remember how much I enjoyed it as a kid.

 

[birdbrain18]

my kids arn't going to celebrate any religios holidays when I have them so no I guess

 

[MsDevin92]

Well, there was actually a Saint Nick, right? Or some guy who went around making toys for kids? Or so I've heard, anyway.

Here's what my theory, and what I'll most likely tell my future children, is: Santa is the personified form of giving. When you want an image to sum up all the sharing of the holiday season, think of him.

 

[I III II X4]

I volunteer my time 3 days out of every 7 anyway. It's sure as hell not because I'm christian (i'm actually an excommunicate catholic), nor is it because of any santa-complex. I do it because it is needed, and I am in a position to help out. "Santa" does not exist, in any way, shape or form. The closest thing is the christian saint nicholaus. Google him if you need to. "Santa", such as he were, is a lie, a falsehood and and advertising aid, that's all. There is no more truth to him than there is the x-men.

First off, since when does somebody have to be a Christian to believe in Santa? I ain't, I believe that there's something beyond our lives, and I believe in spirits.

Second, this has absolutely nothing to do with Santa, but I've always been under the impression that if you're Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, blah, blah...you're ultimately a Christian, now, I could be wrong, and quite frankly, if I am, oh well.

Third, as for your tirade against Santa, let me guess, you didn't get that toy/game you wanted, right?

Finally, fourth. Does it help my case any if state that I live in North Pole, Alaska?

 

[Incompl te]

i don't think its right to lie to your kids about something. They're gonna find out anyway so you might as well tell them so that they can tell you what they want for christmas rather than you wildly guessing.

 

[Fraught]

Like a politician from my country said in a technology magazine (that magazine was asking from a few famous people what they would want for christmas) that people should not take things as they are, because then everything in this world is so boring and black and white. He suggested to conserve your childish perspective on things.
Then things are much more fun etc.

 

[Cahlee]

I'll tell them Santa is real. One of the most exciting things about my childhood was getting all hyper about Santa and going to bed early so he would come faster and putting out cookies. I think that it teaches children about the importance of giving. And it's a lovely and magical.

 

[asiepshtain]

I was working in the USA a couple of weeks ago and I got to say I found this whole Santa clause thing very odd. I'm not Christian but I don't think that the religion thing was what bothered me. I am a parent however, and I go to great lengths not to lie to my kid. I don't drop the weight of the world on him either, I know that a kid doesn't need all that info.

But, I never lie just for the heck of it, for some pretty story, to make him more "innocent". How innocent will the kid be once he learns that his parents have been lying to him for years?

 

[Ultrajoe]

santa is representitive of mankinds giving spirit and cocacola... seriously his red suit was an add for cocacola.

it is rubbish, let your children know that you got them all that stuff, people, stop BSing your kids. its just as bad as telling them other fair tales like the tooth fary, the monsters that eat them if they are bad or the whole jesus/god rubbish.

Stories don't tell them that those things exist. They tell them that those things aren't needed.

If you don't indulge your children's imagination, they'll find their fantasies elsewhere. Why not do it in the safety of a controlled environment? I've said it before and i'll say it again. The world is full of lies and deception, why mollycoddle your children and smother them from that reality? Give your children some credit, they can take discovering what they always knew, but can they take the lies of the world unprepared?

I'll not be so cruel as to make my children endure that unprepared.