Ok, so I'm not winning mother of the year award this year because Hannah knows that Santa Claus is just pretend. She asked, I answered, I don't like lying to her about things because it's important to me that she knows that I'm an accurate source of information. Besides, Santa is really for the parents anyway.
Insert relevant comic strip here.
Despite the seeming concern to the contrary, she's still excited about Christmas, still talks about Santa coming (with the understanding that he's just pretend, but she LIKES to play pretend...she's got a great imagination!). Her Christmas has not, against evidently ALL the odds, been destroyed. Apparently, everyone that Smash's mother works with has decided that the only explanation is that I'm a closet Jehovah's Witness because who else would take away Santa from a three year old?
Anyway, how many of you have kids that *really* still believe in Santa (or ever did?), and do you think that either you or they would be particularly crushed if they were to cease such a belief? Sure, I can imagine it a great threat to bad behavior to exclaim that Santa is watching and won't bring presents, but do you really think they REALLY think that Santa is the one who won't be bringing anything or that they recognize it as a fairy tale with possibly real consequences? I don't remember a time before I recognized that "santa" had the same hand writing as my mother, and I still loved Christmas as a kid. Santa is a retail construction for goodness sake...what's the big deal....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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