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Parenting and Santa Claus (pg. 7)
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| prolikewhoa |
the way you guys are interpreting how this would actually happen is pretty hilarious.
i keep imagining miss havisham yelling at kids, ruining their dreams. |
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| Vivid Boy |
| i keep imagining you married to Mr Costanza celebrating festivus and forcing your kid to fight his father after dinner |
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| Sleightful |
How many of you lacked a childhood and are now trying to wrench it away from their children? Let them have some fun with their imagination. It's unlikely they'll accuse you of lying when they find out Santa isn't real nor will they grow up being easily duped by everything. Let them believe in the big guy til they find out the truth on their own. It's not going to ruin them if you just play along with it. If anything it promotes the need to do research before you choose to believe in something.
The last thing you want is your kid being that douche that runs around the schoolyard telling his/her friends that Santa isn't real and ruining their childhoods. If kindergarten had lockers, that kid would be stuffed in one. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sleightful
The last thing you want is your kid being that douche that runs around the schoolyard telling his/her friends that Santa isn't real and ruining their childhoods. If kindergarten had lockers, that kid would be stuffed in one. |
off. That would be hilarious. |
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| Moongoose |
| Imagine all the hours of entertainment the shouting matches with pissed of parents of kids with ruined hopes and dreams would provide. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
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| Arbiter |
While I express no position on the question of whether or not a parent ought to tell their children that Santa Claus is not real, I must take issue with several comments in this thread which appear to suggest that encouraging children to believe in Santa Claus somehow enhances their power of imagination.
That is plainly incorrect. Being factually mistaken does not enhance one's imagination because one need not believe that something exists in order to imagine it. A person reading a work of fiction, for example, is not disabled or inhibited from imagining that which it describes merely because they are aware that what they are reading is fiction. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
Funnily enough I thought yesterday this thread might encourage you to post.
Merry Christmas arbiter! |
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
you would think that if kids are smart enough to grow out of Santa that
adults would grow out of fables of religion. But we still have alot of red states, al kaeda, conservative and orthodox jews :)
rollin :) |
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| Vivid Boy |
| Don't think just because you spell al Qaeda wrong we won't think you're apart of it |
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
| fyi the only proper way to spell al Kaeda is the arabic way القاعدة |
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