Quote:
"Santa Claus is More About Parents than Children:
Parental investment in Santa Claus is far larger than anything kids do, suggesting that parents’ defense of the Santa Claus myth is more about what they want than about what kids want. Their own memories about enjoying Santa may be heavily influenced by cultural assumptions about what they should have experienced. Is it not possible that kids would find at least as much pleasure in knowing that parents are responsible for Christmas, not a supernatural stranger?"
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Santa Claus: Should Parents Perpetuate the Santa Claus Myth?
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Margaret until now I always thought of you as a reasonable person, we can all shoot off to the web and find examples that suit our purpose, that doesn't make what we are quoting right.
Children are children ask anyone that has performed in a pantomime in front of them and you will be told the children love the fantasy!
I find it strange that the only person so far to back you up shows themselves as:-
gandalfthewhite
I do understand that you consider these fantasies to be lies, but I am looking forward to when my grandchildren are vulnerable to me lying like mad and believing everything I say, it doesn't last long but it will be a glorious adventure for them, the only person likely to be harmed will be me in memory when they get together and talk and laugh about the whoppers Grandad used to tell.
