Comments on: Fuck Yo Santa!

By: melinda

melinda — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:35:59 +0000

oh my holy gosh ... thank you! I thought I was the only person in the entire freaking universe that did not lie to her children about Santa frickin' Claus. Fortunately for me, my daughters are now nearly grown and I do not have to be chided on a yearly basis because of my non santa believing children. At about age 3 my oldest says to me, "mom is santa real" I figure if she asked then she has doubts, so I say, NO he isn't. I don't remember her younger sister ever believing in Santa, but you would have thought I had said "Santa is a big fat liar and you will never get any presents again your entire life" according to the more traditional mom's I knew. You see my biggest dilema was this, I was a single mom for years and I was just pretty much sick of the fat man getting all the cred for my hard work. Plus I just find it wrong in general to lie to my children. Thus, we don't and haven't for years participated in the Santa phenom. I actually find it kind of liberating. melinda´s last blog post..* Farmer Bapa

By: Twinkie

Twinkie — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:55:34 +0000

I always told my kids Santa wasn’t real. But dad, gramma, aunties, etc told them I was lying and there WAS indeed a Santa. So then I told them that daddy was Santa and shhhhh don’t tell anybody because nobody knows. And if you did tell them, they would just say it wasn’t true because they didn’t know any better.

so we shared this secret amongst each other until THIS year, when I finally sat them down and told them the REAL story of Saint Nick and how we are ALL Santa now because we follow the tradition of giving to the less fortunate every winter, etc…

Anyways… I feel yah. I thought it was bullshit that my relatives would go behind my back and do that to my kids and call me a liar just because of their need to bring the “magic” (translation=LIE) into my kids life.. but for the sake of keeping the peace amongst family I chose to handle it the way I did.

I also told them that I was the tooth fairy.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:42:17 +0000

My kids do believe in Santa...and it was great, for a while. But my oldest is now almost 11 and still believes. What the hell? It's cute and all...but when he tells me he's going to ask Santa for a dirtbike because we won't get him one...well bucko, now we have a problem. :) Your kids are yours, raise them the way you like. They're gorgeous and intelligent and kind...obviously, you're doing something right. Shannon´s last blog post..The story of the turd-filled hallway

By: Margie

Margie — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:03:29 +0000

I learned that there was no Santa from my father's ex-wife, on Christmas morning when I was 5 (my parents hadn't labeled any gifts from him anyway). I wasn't exactly devastated, it was all part and parcel of a childhood devoid of any magic and protection from the adult world. I grew up watching R rated, sexy and violent movies, hearing filthy language and parents cuss each other out and relatives tell lewd jokes in front of the kids while allowing us to sip from their drinks until we got sick and puked. I grew up seeing everything that went on behind the scenes- and much of it was not pretty. So- "truth" was doled out in abundance in my house. I grew up to be a normal, functional adult (more or less). I also learned that childhood is brief and I would not have minded one little bit if mine had included some fantasy and magic and sheltering from the harsh truths for at least a little bit. My kids have kick-ass Santas, Easter Bunnies and Tooth-Fairies- and truthfully, they know that it is me and that it is an expression of my love for them- I want them to have fun and magical memories and I will teach them all they need to know about the "real stuff" when the time comes. That being said, your kids, your rules- everyone else's opinion, unless you are harming your kids, doesn't matter- Margie´s last blog post..We're probably not going to take it, thank you anyway.

By: Amanda of Shamelessly Sassy

Amanda of Shamelessly Sassy — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:44:51 +0000

I grew up without Santa. My mom never told us that Santa was real. However, my husband grew up with Santa. So I let him tell Allie that Santa is real as long as he does all of the Santa like stuff. Amanda of Shamelessly Sassy´s last blog post..Shameless Confessions: Perez Hilton is my Home Page.