The wrap/ unwrap Santa thread has me thinking...
If you celebrate Christmas, will your kids receive gifts from Santa?
DH didn't have Santa, the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny and doesn't think our kids should either. I believed in Santal until I was told by a teacher at 11 he was not real. What a sad day. 
nectarine / 2163 posts
my dad told me santa wasn't real when I was 3. from then on I was part of the ruse in convincing my siblings. i'm not sure whether we'll have santa, we haven't really discussed!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
Neither DH or my parents played into Santa, the easter bunny or tooth fairy. We probably won't either.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
Maybe we would have done it, but my 2 year old figured out the ruse.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
@Mrs. Jacks: Details please. How was she so clever so young?
bananas / 9899 posts
I don't have an LO yet, but Santa will be real in our home! I wasn't permanently damaged by having my parents pretend he was real, infact it was fun and I would like to let my child experience the same.
cherry / 148 posts
Oh ya! My siblings and I still get piles of gifts from Santa still. It will never get old!
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: on Christmas eve last year as she was going to bed, I said "go to sleep so Santa can come.". She replied, "Mama, I know you and dada are going to go downstairs and eat the cookies and bring the presents! You are Santa!"
Well, there goes that, I guess 
nectarine / 2636 posts
We will probably do Santa with our kids, but I figured out pretty early that Santa was pretend. I always left cookies and milk out and every year my dad would forget to eat them! I kept doing it even though I knew and I would be like, "Dad! I sure hope Santa eats the cookies this year!" Haha. He was terrible about the tooth fairy too. I'd have to remind him several days in a row that the tooth fairy didn't come, lol.
eggplant / 11824 posts
Santa was real for both of us and will be for LO. Growing up, I didn't know anyone who didn't believe in / celebrate Santa; across all religious types and non-religious families as well. To me, Santa is a happy, joyful and non-negotiable part of the spirit of giving and the secular celebration of the Christmas season.
pear / 1642 posts
Santa will absolutely be real in our home! He was for both DH and I growing up an we can't wait to share that with LO. I figured it out at 4. My dads name is Nick and he signed all the presents from Saint Nick in his own writing, lol. Not too hard to figure out... But after that it was fun keeping Santa alive for my younger siblings, we used to set traps and my parents would play along by leaving a Santa hat in our net or powdered sugar footprints near the tree.
nectarine / 2274 posts
We don't believe in Santa in our family, we exchange presents but teach my niece that her presents are from the people that love her. I plan to do the same with LO.
eggplant / 11287 posts
I grew up in a "we can pretend believe in Santa but everyone knows he is really mommy and daddy" home, but DH grew up in a "santa is real, there's a naughty and nice list, reindeer land on your roof" home. We are very mixed on this. I have no idea what we will teach LO.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
I grew with my Mom saying if you didn't believe then you didn't get presents!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
I never believed in Santa growing up, but I believed in the Tooth Fairy! My dad always told me to put my tooth under my pillow, and by morning I'd always find a quarter there.
I think it'd be fun to do that stuff for our kids, but we haven't discussed it at length yet so I'm not sure if we will or not...
GOLD / pomegranate / 3938 posts
Santa is still real in my house. I don't have LOs yet. But I still get presents from Santa.
Wow, @Mrs. Jacks: , your two year old is a bright one. My two year old niece is barely stringing two words together.
GOLD / pomegranate / 3938 posts
@Smurfette: my mom still says the same thing! I think it is so very fun that way.
pear / 1812 posts
Once LO is here he will be! Even Jewish Mr. Hedgie is excited about it. He LOVES Christmas. lol
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@TheSwissWifeStyle: seriously brings some "magic" to the season
pomegranate / 3231 posts
I'm Jewish, so no gifts from Santa in my house growing up. My husband is pretty secular (as am I) but comes from a Christian background and really likes Christmas. Not sure what his views are on the realities of Santa but I suspect he will not make any appearances in our house. We are not big gift people anyway and do not exchange gifts with each other. Not sure what sort of gift-giving traditions we will assume with our child when it makes its appearance.
grapefruit / 4823 posts
Santa will be real in our house. Both DH and I had Santa and I LOVE seeing my niece and nephews faces when they get excited about Santa coming, or telling what he got them. I can't wait for our children to get to that age, and will probably be sad when they stop believing
cantaloupe / 6800 posts
@MrsMcD: haha same. My parents still give my adult sister and I presents from Santa.
Santa is absolutely going to be alive in our house, DH and I are both really looking forward to it. It's such a magical part of holidays.
coconut / 8498 posts
We won't really make a big deal about Santa, and if asked we'll take the same approach as @Rainbow Sprinkles: 's family. That it's fun to pretend. But we will teach our kids not to ruin it for other kids.
pomegranate / 3872 posts
@Smurfette: yup my mom still says that! She has this picture she hangs up that says something to that effect lol.
I grew up with Santa and it was so fun, even though I figured it out pretty quickly. I still loved to pretend and play along for my brother (and my parents lol.) We still understood the reason for Christmas and didn't confuse Santa with the religious aspect.
blogger / coconut / 8306 posts
@Smurfette: same! We still get presents from Santa!
My nana hangs a stocking in her fireplace & tells the kids that Santa left it behind. They always get a kick out of it
Santa absolutely comes to our house!
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@JerricaBenton: My Mom still has a tshirt that she wears around the house.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
This is an argument in our house. We're Jewish, so no santa won't come to our house. But I would like LO to think there is a santa just so she doesn't blab to other kiddos. DH thinks that we can simply explain to her that he's fake and tell her not to tell her friends. Meanwhile, his brother ruined it for everyone when they were younger and his mom had to go house to house apologizing for him. I don't want to be that mother.
watermelon / 14206 posts
DS still believes, and since he just lost his first tooth, he believes in the tooth fairy, too. Also Easter Bunny.
I'll leave it up to peers to let him know, cause I don't have the heart to tell him it was all fake, lol.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
@Weagle: If my kid shared that Santa wasn't real or they didn't believe I would be okay with that. Half my friends growing up were Jewish and not believing in Santa was quite common. Even when my bestie told me she found her presents I chalked it up to Santa just not visiting *her* anymore.
@JerricaBenton: In my house Christmas was completely secular. In DH's house it was all religious and that's why they didn't have Santa. I'm surprised they still celebrated it in winter and not in the Spring for Jesus' actual birth. My MIL was shocked to learn just how secular a family (mine could make the holiday.
honeydew / 7586 posts
I am 29-years-old and all of my presents still come from Santa! There was nothing better than running down the stairs Christmas morning to see if Santa came. I cannot wait to share that joy with B!
pomegranate / 3275 posts
Oh we have Santa in our house! DD is three this year and will totally understand what is going on, I'm so excited for Christmas!
cantaloupe / 6397 posts
We will definitely had Santa! LO will only be 8 months old and I'm pretty sure she'll have gifts from Santa this year... It's a fun tradition. I don't even remember when I knew he wasn't real, so it definitely didn't scar me for life or anything.
honeydew / 7091 posts
Oh yes, we will definitely have Santa! I believed for WAY too long (I hope I was really just wanting to be in denial about it, and that I didn't *really* believe). My sister who is 4 years younger than me accepted the truth before I did!
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