Being raised as Jehovah's witness I felt teaching kids that Santa, the tooth fairy, Easter bunny etc was a little silly and that they wouldn't trust you after finding out they were tricked and it's not real. I'm now a little confused as to how to handle it.

Adrian was taught that Santa was a fun storybook character. He never thought he was real, never questioned it for as far as I remember.

I thought I wasn't doing anything different for Connor. We read stories about Santa but all gifts clearly marked who they are truly from. The other day he told me that Santa wasn't real and that he knew that. I asked him "what makes you think that?" and he gave a perfectly logical reason that made perfect sense and we didn't discuss it further.

Well the other day Santa showed up at school. He's never seen Santa that he can remember, he was too young the last time he's seen them at the mall. Well in class they made these plaques that have a santa poem and a key attached so he can get into our house (no fireplace). He procedes to tell me how excited that he is that Santa is really reall and we must get a hammer to hang it up so he gets his presents. I told him he already had presents from us under the tree but he insisted Santa will be bringing more. So much of me wanted to correct him but he was so excited. So far I just dropped the subject and called Dave to see how we should handle this. It's best we are on the same page. Dave thought it was great that Connor sees the magic and he wasn't traumatized to learn later that Santa wasn't real. He thinks we should just go with it and make it a special Christmas. I'm torn but it does sound kinda fun.

So I want to know, who grew up with Santa and did it break their heart that he wasn't real? What are you doing with your kids now?

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