The santa clause myth is lib shit, and I have no plans to teach my kid that santa clause is real. I don’t want my kid obsessing over the amount of shit at the bottom of that tree on 12/25, or trying to manipulate their behavior a few days/weeks beforehand to increase said amount of shit.
But, I’m not really sure how to approach this. The kid is only 2, so nothing to worry about for a few more years. Should I just be direct? There is no Santa, holidays are about family?
Anybody here already cross that bridge?
Idk, pretty much everybody in my class knew that Santa wasn’t real all the way back in first grade. I feel like as long as you don’t tell them that Santa is real and don’t let them watch too many cheesy Christmas movies, they probably won’t think that he is real.
true, maybe i’m just over thinking the santa aspect of it. I guess I’m more concerned about the materialism part - I was a fucking asshole if I didn’t get what I wanted for christmas, and I don’t want my kid to be that way. Not putting all the blame on my parents here, obviously capitalism and consumption drove that narrative - but they didn’t do anything to teach us any different.
that’s something i thought about - i don’t want my kid to be a doomer at 4 years old telling her classmates they’re libs for believing in santa lol
I was raised not to believe in Santa. I asked my dad if he was real at like 4 he said no that was it. Hasn’t effected my life at all.
Tell them the truth! Santa is the fed chair in disguise, they hijacked a fable to drive consumerism. Make it into a bedtime story about the pitfalls of materialism: the deer are the workforce led by the red outcast, cookies are the tool of lobbying firms, and so on…
