How does everyone handle the whole Santa situation with their children?
I'd rather not lie to the little people and keep consumerism low in our whānau but also don't want them to feel like they miss out on fun stuff.
@pezmico I was quite a weird, literal child, and having spoken to my friends my experience was by no means universal, but the amount of enjoyment I may have had from the Santa story was far, far outweighed by how upset and scared I was when I found out all the adults in my life had been conspiring to lie to me about something that at that age felt very important. I couldn't understand why they'd made this story up and convinced me it was true and I was terrified I couldn't trust anything
@pezmico else that they said to me now. As I say I've never met anyone else who felt the same, and obviously if everyone had found the whole thing so scary as a child no one would still do it, but seeing my brother tell my nieces about Santa still makes me very uncomfortable and worried that he's setting them up for the same thing
