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Should you drop the truth bomb to children about Santa Claus?

By on December 8, 2020

The short answer to that is ‘yes’.

For many Christians around the world, Christmas Eve being the birth of Jesus, is actually the most exciting part of the holiday celebration with Father Christmas coming to visit to drop off gifts to young well-behaved children.

Over a period of generations, the story of the fat man in red suit that flies around the world on Christmas Eve rewarding well-behaved children, has survived.

Unfortunately,  the age of internet has blown Santa’s cover.  Any school child now can easily google “Is Santa fake?” and they’ll learn the truth.

So if parents are still lying to kids about Santa, clinical psychologist Kathy McKay warns, “Lying to children can undermine their trust in parents leaving children to their abject disappointment.”

On Santa Claus effect on children:
“The Santa Myth is such an involved lie. Such a long-lasting one, between parents and children, that if a relationship is vulnerable, this may be the final straw. If parents can lie so convincingly and over such a long time, what else can they lie about?”

Psychiatrist warns parents not to use Santa Claus as a parenting tool to threaten children with no gifts from Santa if they misbehave.

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