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For atheist families, there's a pretty good discussion of Santa in Parenting Beyond Belief, presented as a point/counterpoint argument. ("Santa is lies" vs. "Santa is good for kids learning to reason this stuff out for themselves.") We're pro-Santa, but this is pretty clearly our last year of it. My youngest basically has it figured out. I'm trying to deflect until after the holidays because she will totally be That Kid blabbing it around preschool no matter what I say to her.Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician KingComment
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Here's a video DD10 made yesterday. She knows Santa is just fun and asked to eat the cookies this year...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hOgYbHWQR4o-LadybugComment
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Soooo cute!!Laurie
My team: DH (anesthesiologist), DS (9), DD (8)Comment
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My kids immediately watched that twice.Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician KingComment
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