A few months after Christmas I was checking my Amazon account of past orders when my son happened to be looking at my computer and he saw a present I had previously claimed was from Santa. He took this as evidence for Santa’s non-existence.
I’m not going to criticise your decision, especially with regard to the social situation at school, which I can’t speculate about. But I doubt it’s more interesting to believe in the weird collection of junk memes that Santa Claus has become.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think the truth is always more interesting, because there’s aways more detail in it. Fake things are ultimately very boring; you poke at them a bit and there’s nothing there. Flying reindeer are just pictures of approximately deer-like animals (usually more like red deer) positioned above the ground. Real reindeer are pretty amazing.
A few months after Christmas I was checking my Amazon account of past orders when my son happened to be looking at my computer and he saw a present I had previously claimed was from Santa. He took this as evidence for Santa’s non-existence.
This raises the question of why you made your child believe in Santa Claus in the first place.
It made his life more interesting, and helped him socialize with classmates who believed in Santa.
I’m not going to criticise your decision, especially with regard to the social situation at school, which I can’t speculate about. But I doubt it’s more interesting to believe in the weird collection of junk memes that Santa Claus has become.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think the truth is always more interesting, because there’s aways more detail in it. Fake things are ultimately very boring; you poke at them a bit and there’s nothing there. Flying reindeer are just pictures of approximately deer-like animals (usually more like red deer) positioned above the ground. Real reindeer are pretty amazing.