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?"
extract from -
Santa Claus: Should Parents Perpetuate the Santa Claus Myth?
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I am sure that this is, to a great extent true.
Most parents want to provide something better for their own children than their parents provided for them......or at least on a par with.
Even though we were poor I enjoyed the Christmas experience......OK, it wasn't so commercial way back then....and I remember wanting to provide my own child with the Christmas experience........and what is wrong with that?
Margaret, you are entitled to your own opinion (as is everyone else who uses this forum), but it isn't one that I would subscribe to.
Let children enjoy their childhood......it doesn't have to be viewed from such an adult and serious perspective.