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- From: rcollins@ns.encore.com (Roger Collins)
- Subject: Re: Lying to children
- Reply-To: rcollins@encore.com
- Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:49:17 GMT
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- I was wondering if anyone else out there is a scrooge like myself in not
- wanting to lie to my kids about Santa. I catch hell from every other
- adult about it. I'm going to give 3 reasons why I don't do lie
- to my kids about it.
-
- 1. I teach my kids lying is wrong. Enough said.
-
- 2. A few days ago my 5 year old asked regarding her friend, "why is her
- mom so mean?" [Apparently, her mom had said "no" on several requests to
- play, spend the night, etc. and the daughter complained about her mom.
- I noticed that the friend had been riding a new pair of in-line roller
- skates every time I saw her since Christmas.] My reply to my daughter
- was, "Who gave her those roller skates that she has been enjoying so
- much recently?" My daughter answered, "Santa Claus." (I let it go for
- then; we didn't have enough time to talk about it.) I don't think it
- would hurt most kids to know their gifts came from their sacrificing,
- generous, loving parents, rather than old Saint Nick.
-
- 3. [only applies to religious folk, not me] I especially wonder about
- religious parents who, even after they just told their kids that Santa
- was a big fat lie, expect their children to believe in another unseen
- person (they know only through stories from parents and other adults)
- for the rest of their lives.
-