Follow-up: For those with children, do you continue the ruse with your own children, or simply tell them it’s you who gives the gifts? Why or why not?

  • @stinky@redlemmy.com
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    04 months ago

    I think lying to kids is how you hurt them.

    Kids can have fun without that lie: “Let’s make cookies together and eat them. Let’s hang up stockings and put surprises in them for each other. Let’s decorate a tree and make a fun video”.

          • @stinky@redlemmy.com
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            04 months ago

            Being lied to by your protector and guardian is enough to traumatize anyone at that age. You shouldn’t be shaming the people who get hurt by it, you should be shaming the people that do it.

            • @andrewta@lemmy.world
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              04 months ago

              I’ve never met anyone who could honestly say they were traumatized by finding out Santa wasn’t real. I’m 50+ years old.

              Unhappy? Yeah.

              Sad… Yeah

              Traumatized? No