Santa
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Topic: Santa
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: Santa
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 2:47pm
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Whats you opinion on him? Do your kids still believe? My kids still do and I think it is a great bribery tool to get things done!!! I think he is a good thing to still let the kids believe in him althou I think this will be the last year for Andrew. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 3:06pm
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I still believe in Santa! (Although not that he actually flies around the world in a sleigh).
Elias has no idea who he is .. even Isabelle is a little confused, but happy when she realised he gives out pressies ... however she did think it was because it was her birthday, although that child thinks every day is her birthday.  ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: Jaxnz1
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 4:23pm
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Weird, I was just thinking about this while bringing the washing in!
One of our family member's don't 'encourage' santa because of the whole 'don't talk to strangers' thing and then some parents push their kids on to santa's lap and make them talk to him etc etc , it was also the whole thing about parent's 'lying' to their kids about this fantasy person and then finding out he's not real. Now I don't entirely agree with not believing in santa because i've never heard of a kid finding out that he isn't real and then turning to his parents and saying 'you lied to me!' but I don't think we'll go overboard with it either with the photo on santa's lap etc etc. As a kid, I loved the mystery and excitement of having santa come down the chimney and eating the milk and bickkies  I think it's good for kids' imaginations, I mean it's no different to fairy tales is it?
It really made me think though about whether to go into the whole santa thing with DD when she's older and how far we would go with it. I think it would be sad to cut him out altogether though. Just my thoughts anyway  ------------- 
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Posted By: nicandtyler
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 4:50pm
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oh my gosh I love Santa and Christmas lol, I think the whole thing is awesome and completely harmless, it never even crossed my mind to not do it with T. Every year when we were little we always used to put out milk and chocolate chippies (and carrots and lettuce and a bowl of water for the reindeer) and mum or dad would always come and eat it to make it look like Santa had been haha and always left a pressie on the end of the bed, we would always stay up trying to see santa but always fell asleep lol, I never got mad the my mum and dad had 'lied' to us, as we got older we just figured it out. I think its such a fun time of the year, we will def do it with T until he is old enough to catch us out lol ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: HuMum
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 6:43pm
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"if you don't believe you don't receive"....... I fondly remember mum telling us 4 that as kids.... coming back to haunt her now... 40 years later and we are still all true believers!
And he still comes... :) And mum spends all day on xmas trying to work out who has bought her santa pressie. We used to have fun leaving reindeer prints and poo on the lawn at the farm for my city cousins. |
Posted By: julz85
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 7:31pm
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hah Humum My mum was the same , i once remember when i was about 8 saying i didnt beleive in Santa and mum told me i wouldnt get any presents if i didnt beleive . hahaha i still didnt beleive in him but i certinly made out i did , i wanted my presents!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: bebebaby
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 8:54pm
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I grew up not celebrating xmas (due to parents religion) and DH did. So now we have our boy, we have talked about what to do, but I am anti santa. So I don't think we will tell him about santa. We will celebrate xmas ie gifts etc.
I guess because I never believed/celebrated I don't see what what the big deal is with him. Its kinda weird. But each to there own. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 18 November 2010 at 9:05pm
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My mom always said the if you dont believe you dont recieve thing too, so every year i remind her i still believe and every year i get a santa sack at the end of my bed Still.
Howeeeever, i think i would rather my child know that their uncle brought them a nice toy because his uncle loves him and wants to give him something nice. Its all about giving not recieving and i feel like Santa fosters an attitude of gimme gimme gimme. But when it comes down to it, other kids, school, tele, stores etc etc is going to corrupt him anyway so...we'll see! |
Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 19 November 2010 at 10:49am
I think Santa is harmless fun. Likewise I never got upset when I found out Santa doesn't actually exist (I like the 'you have to believe to receive' line!). With our kids we make sure they realise that the big pressies come from us (or from friends or relatives etc) and the little pressies that appear in their stockings overnight are from Santa  ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Posted By: kiwi2
Date Posted: 19 November 2010 at 10:01pm
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A little bit of magic and excitement didn't hurt anyone. My 10 year old has an inkling that he isn't real and after this year in nz I am sure he will be enlightened very fast. His playground education has been staggering over the last year. I also say if you don't beleive you don't receive. With my 13 year old she moved from the excitement of beleiving to the excitement of keeping the secret and helping bring fun to the others. She was 10 when she found out.
As for photos we have a very pervy photo of me and my brother on santas lap with our older sister who would have been 18 and santa getting a good look down her top. Got to love those polaroids. |
Posted By: TheKelly
Date Posted: 19 November 2010 at 10:05pm
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My daughter is starting to not believe in him, although at times (if she thinks it will get her presents ) she says she does.....
I think the idea of Santa is great and hes welcome in our household for many years to come. Christmas is (apart from the religious side ) really for the children, and children deserve to have magic in their lives for as long as possible ------------- 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 19 November 2010 at 10:36pm
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It was never a big thing in my family and I don't recall my parents forcing it on me, I think I knew all long he didn't exist but still went to get photos! Never got presents from Santa, just family.
Still undecided on what we'll do with DD, she's a bit too young to realise and would probably freak out if DP (who could be Santa in terms of size just needs the white hair/beard!) dressed up! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 20 November 2010 at 10:29am
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TheKelly wrote:Posted By: nicandtyler
Date Posted: 20 November 2010 at 5:04pm
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 21 November 2010 at 7:50am
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My childhood memories of xmas & Santa always felt magical & fun & we try & make the same feeling for our kids. I don't know if DS1 still believes & I am sure some kids at school have put him right but he has not said he doesn't believe. I was the youngest in our family & they kept the illusion of Santa till I was old enough to want to stop & that is what we will do.
DH is from Holland so he had Sinterklaas on the 5/12 & we do that for our kids also. So DH did not do xmas like us till he came to NZ. I love xmas & hope we have Santa for many yrs to come. |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 21 November 2010 at 8:04am
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When I was a kid, I swore that I saw santa in his sleigh fly over our house once christmas eve lol, I can still see what I saw, in my head. I remember yelling to dad "daddy daddy I saw santa!!!" So dad said, "oh you better go to bed then!!".
I told the kids at school I saw him and they made fun of me and told me santa wasnt real, so I went home crying, and dad had to tell me the truth, I think I was about 9 or 10...not sure though. My kids can believe for as long as they want to like kelly said, for kids christmas is magical! and its actually feeling like that again for me, now that Im a mummy! ------------- |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 21 November 2010 at 8:21am
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One of the best things about being a parent is joining in on the magic of being a kids at xmas. It is the warmest feeling ever.
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 21 November 2010 at 8:51am
So agree ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 21 November 2010 at 1:46pm
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We love Santa here!! I agree totally with Jazzy, Christmas is so much fun now that we have the kids ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4
 
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Posted By: Keolyn
Date Posted: 29 November 2010 at 8:59pm
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I work as an Elf at the mall *(taking photo's of the kids with Santa) and I'm all for letting the kids imagine that he's real and experiencing the magic of it. In saying this though, I have seen some really horrible parents who, even though thier kids were terrified of Santa, still made them go up and see him/sit with him.. I think the idea is magical but maybe in person, some of the magic is lost. My heart broke when one lady was so frustrated that her son (who was clearly histerical at sitting on Santa's knee) slapped him accross the head and left him there 'cos she wanted a 'nice photo!' it was terrible to watch and I really felt sorry for that little boy. ------------- http://lilypie.com/"> 
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